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Trying to integrate foreman with puppet, using webrick, i hit an issue very similar to this one: http://theforeman.org/issues/229
But even adding a default node in puppet's configuration i got the same problem, eg:

root@leith:/etc/puppet# puppet agent --test --server leith.fre.local --noop
notice: Ignoring --listen on onetime run
err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find node 'leith.fre.local'; cannot compile
warning: Not using cache on failed catalog
err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run


turns out, the node.rb generated from the installer foreman's puppet class (using ubuntu's packages but same stuff with RH repos, epel and foremans), has this setting:

[...]
SETTINGS = {
:url => "http://leith.fre.local:3000*/*",
[...]


Which actually is right, but when the ECN script connects to foreman to ask for node's yaml, the actual HTTP get request is:

GET http://leith.fre.local:3000//node/leith.fre.local?format=yml HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Host: leith.fre.local:3000


which results in webrick replying with 404 - node not found.

Just taking out the last '/' in the ecn script:

[...]
SETTINGS = {
:url => "http://leith.fre.local:3000",
[...]


solves the issue.

IMHO, this seems like a webrick issue, though not sure if double / are allowed by the HTTP specifications. Posted this to save time to other poor souls who may hit the same issue, so please add this on the documentation.

Thanks,
Frederik