Lab 7.1 Securing Jenkins Projects: Curl commands not working for me

paccha5065 · January 2023

I have started the test VM on my local machine and can access the Jenkins controller on "http://localhost:5000".

So while following the lab and trying to create folders within Jenkins using the curl commands provided, I am getting an error:

"Invoke-WebRequest : Cannot bind parameter 'Headers'. Cannot convert the "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded" value of type "System.String" to type "System.Collections.IDictionary".
At line:1 char:211

... 14212b316d8f4d7 \ -H "Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
~~~~~~~~~~~~
- CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Invoke-WebRequest], ParameterBindingException
- FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand"

I tried to regenerate the access token twice but both times got the same error.

PS: OS - WINDOWS 10

paccha5065 · January 2023

I am trying to execute these in a windows machine using PowerShell, but not even a single curl command is working for me. How do I resolve this issue?

luisviveropena · January 2023

Hi @paccha5065,

It seems there could be issues when running curl on Windows. Is there any chance that you can try on Linux or MacOS? If not, I suggest to check the following information that I found when looking for issues to run curl on Windows (also the installation can be more complicated):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47983929/curl-not-working-windows-10-cmd

https://curl.se/windows/microsoft.html

https://docs.particle.io/troubleshooting/guides/build-tools-troubleshooting/installing-curl-for-windows/

The last one contains lot of details about installing it.

Regards,
Luis.