Friday, May 19, 2017



I was trying to wget one of Jenkins Artifacts, but was continuously getting a 404 error.


HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2017-05-19 13:12:13 ERROR 404: Not Found.

My request was as follows.


wget https://wso2.org/jenkins/job/ballerinalang/job/tools-distribution/257/org.ballerinalang.tools$ballerina-tools/artifact/org.ballerinalang.tools/ballerina-tools/0.87-SNAPSHOT/ballerina-tools-0.87-SNAPSHOT.zip

So my issue was, My URL had some special charactors. (tools$ballerina-tools) A $ character. So Bash droped this when fetching the artefact, So Jenkins was unable to find the actual resource. To solve this type of issue you can use a scape charater to skip the special character.

\$

Full Request is as Follows.

wget https://wso2.org/jenkins/job/ballerinalang/job/tools-distribution/257/org.ballerinalang.tools\$ballerina-tools/artifact/org.ballerinalang.tools/ballerina-tools/0.87-SNAPSHOT/ballerina-tools-0.87-SNAPSHOT.zip


This is one of million ways to get an 404 error, Just mentioning to help someone to save couple of hours. :)
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2 comments:

  1. I am also having same problem, I am trying to to call rest api to get current job details. It gives me 404 error but in browser it works fine.

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    1. It's possible you might be having special characters in your URL which will be encoded by the browser and sent.

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