Spaces in Jenkins job name causes CI Status to not update

[ndcampbell]

I am getting the error "Cannot connect to the CI server." on Merge Requests in Gitlab ever since upgrading to 7.10.5-ee. This is happening for any project where my Jenkins job name has a space in it. The projects still build and everything, just the status says it cannot connect. If I remove spaces from the job name, it works. This was working just fine in 7.10.0-ee.

I am using the most recent version of the plugin. I checked the production.log in gitlab and see:

Started GET "/venus-platform/venus/merge_requests/165/ci_status" for 127.0.0.1 at 2015-05-29 08:17:36 -0500

and in the Jenkins log I see:

May 29, 2015 8:21:58 AM com.dabsquared.gitlabjenkins.GitLabWebHook getDynamic
INFO: WebHook called with url: /refs/bug-changeBgcEnumToEspd/commits/97b19a8d6a6cb52c8faaf6f55588270dadbc3a33/status.json

Any ideas?

Jenkins URLs use "%20" for spaces. Perhaps a parsing error?

[thatarchguy]

+1 I experienced this as well.

[omehegan]

Confirmed, still a bug in the latest version.

[coder-hugo]

This is a bug in GitLab 7.14. It forces you to enter a valid URL that contains slashes already URL encoded (%20) but does an URL encoding itself before requesting the status.json. This second URL encoding changes the % sign to %25. As the Jenkins does the URL decoding just once (for a reason) the gitlab-plugin gets a project name that contains a %20 instead of a space.
I'd suggest you to use URL friendly names (names that not contain any sign that needs to be URL encoded) for your Jenkins jobs. If you like to have a more human readable name for the job in the overview page use the displayName of the advanced project options for this.