How can a Jenkins user authentication details be “passed” to a script which uses Jenkins API to create jobs?

Question

I have a script that delete and re-create jobs through curl HTTP-calls and I want to get rid of any hard-coded \"username:password\". E.g. curl -X POST $url --user use

Answer 1

I needed to explicitly add POST in the CURL command:

curl -X POST http://:@/safeRestart

I also have the SafeRestart Plugin installed, in case that makes a difference.