# Ansible "failed\_when" not working as desired **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [March 6, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failed-when-not-working-as-desired/32405 "2020-03-06T12:46:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rakesh\_Parida](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rakesh\_Parida](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rakesh_Parida)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failed-when-not-working-as-desired/32405/1 "2020-03-06T12:46:58Z")
Hi, I have a task as follows: - hosts: nodes gather\_facts: true tasks: - name: CurlCP Status shell: “curl -Is -m 1 [http://localhost:9113/cp/healthcheck](http://localhost:9113/cp/healthcheck)” register: cp\_status failed\_when: “‘200 OK’ not in cp\_status.stdout\_lines” It fails even if 200 Ok is in o/p. I want to fail the job only when 200 OK is not in o/p Pls help here ---
**Author:** ![vbotka](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/vbotka/32/359_2.png) [@vbotka](https://forum.ansible.com/u/vbotka)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failed-when-not-working-as-desired/32405/2 "2020-03-06T13:25:46Z")
Try      failed\_when: cp\_status.stdout\_lines|                   select('search', '200 OK')|                   list\>                   length == 0 HTH,   -vlado ---
**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-failed-when-not-working-as-desired/32405/3 "2020-03-06T13:28:37Z")
Why not use the uri module instead of fragile shell + curl ?