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Asked: 2026-05-27T08:59:13+00:00

I have set up Jenkins with the Github plugin on my test server. I

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I have set up Jenkins with the Github plugin on my test server. I have secured Jenkins by only allowing authenticated users (anonymous users don’t have any rights) and secure connections.

Unfortunately the post-commit hook offered by Github doesn’t seem to work in my case. I’ve tried to access the URL at https://jenkins.on.my.server/github-webhook/ manually and it gave me a “net.sf.json.JSONException: null object” error, which is fine since I didn’t post any JSON along with my request.

My question:

I have secured Jenkins with authenticated users, thus I have to use a URL in the format https://user@pw:jenkins.on.my.server/github-webhook/, right? As I don’t want to post the credentials all over the net, can I use a secure connection as post-commit hook for Github?

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  1. Editorial Team

    After having fiddled around with this for quite some time, I ended up using the excellent Github OAuth Plugin for Jenkins. To quote the documentation:

    Since version 0.4 there is a way to authorize the use of the github-webhook callback url to receive post commit hooks from Github.

    Along with the Github Plugin which triggers the build, this works most elegantly!

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