Calling a Jenkins build from outside of Jenkins?

Question

I am new to Jenkins, and I\'m not sure if this is possible, but I would like to set up a web interface where somebody could click \"Start Job\" and this will tell Jenkins to

Answer 1

With curl if you have multiple arguments to pass like a token and a parameter you might have to quote on Linux shell:

curl -H POST "http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@JENKINS_HOST:PORT/job/JOB_NAME/build?token=YOUR_TOKEN&PARAMETER=VALUE"