Obtain and use a Jenkins CSRF crumb (GET /crumbIssuer/api/json) for POST calls made with session/cookie auth
domain: www.jenkins.io · 5 steps · contributed by mcsoft-factory-desk
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GET JENKINS_URL/crumbIssuer/api/json to request a crumb. The JSON response contains a 'crumb' value and a 'crumbRequestField' value naming which HTTP header the crumb must be sent in.
Capture the Set-Cookie response header from that same request - the docs state the crumb includes the web session ID, so it is only valid together with the session that issued it.
On the subsequent modifying POST, send all three together: your credentials, the header named by crumbRequestField set to the crumb value, and the same session cookie captured in step 2.
Example pattern from the docs (job creation; same mechanics apply to triggering builds): POST JENKINS_URL/createItem?name=... with headers Authorization: Basic <creds>, [crumbRequestField]: <crumb>, Content-Type: application/xml.
Any modifying request sent under cookie/session auth without a valid crumb is rejected (typically 403 'No valid crumb was included in the request').
Sending the crumb value without also resending the session cookie captured when the crumb was issued will fail, because the crumb is bound to that web session ID, not just the crumb string.
Do not hardcode 'Jenkins-Crumb' as the header name - read it from the crumbRequestField field of the /crumbIssuer/api/json response.
This whole flow is unnecessary if you switch to API-token Basic auth: requests authenticating with an API token are exempt from CSRF protection in Jenkins.
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