[JIRA] (JENKINS-16264) Posting config.xml to master node advertised to work

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Jesse Glick commented on JENKINS-16264 Posting config.xml to master node advertised to work Let me try to clear this up so there is one and only one issue per JIRA ticket. Otherwise it is impossible to ever close anything. First, it is an accident that GET /computer/(master)/config.xml does anything. This Computer.doConfigDotXml was designed to retrieve configuration of a slave, not Jenkins as a whole; POST to an actual slave does work (AFAIK). This bug, JENKINS-16264, I am leaving open to represent the fact that this URI misleadingly returns anything, and is advertised to exist in any api.jelly; it is not a bug that it rejects POST. Second, if you want to be able (as someone with ADMINISTER permission) to GET or POST the URI /config.xml, and/or other global config files (nodeMonitors.xml, hudson.model.UpdateCenter.xml, etc.), that would be a separate RFE. There may be security or robustness difficulties in allowing such changes to be made via REST, though. Third, POST /view/*/config.xml is supposed to work; if it does not, that would be a separate bug.

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