Jenkins: 403 No valid crumb was included in the request

Finally, this post helped me to do away with the crumb problem but still securing Jenkins from CSRF attack.

Solution for no-valid crumb included in the request issue

Basically, we need to first request for crumb with authentication and then issue POST api calls with crumb as a header along with authentication again.

This is how I did it,

curl -v -X GET http://jenkins-url:8080/crumbIssuer/api/json --user <username>:<password>

Response was,

{
"_class":"hudson.security.csrf.DefaultCrumbIssuer",
"crumb":"0db38413bd7ec9e98974f5213f7ead8b",
"crumbRequestField":"Jenkins-Crumb"
}

Then the POST api with above crumb information in it.

curl -X POST http://jenkins-url:8080/job/<job-name>/build --user <username>:<password> -H 'Jenkins-Crumb: 0db38413bd7ec9e98974f5213f7ead8b'