escaping a backslash in a playbook

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I have a playbook that calls get_url to download a file BUT the URL contains a backslash

http://cijboss:8080/jenkins/job/prod/186/org.myorg\$ear/artifact/org.org/ear/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ear-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear"
I have tried double quotes, single quotes, \ escape sequences, etc. Have tried the many things found in Jinja2 and YAML escaping documents and nothing works. When I feed the URL through an ad hoc command, it downloads the file just fine.

ansible -m get_url -u user -a “http://cijboss:8080/jenkins/job/prod/186/org.myorg\$ear/artifact/org.org/ear/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ear-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear” dest=/home/user"
Each time the playbook runs, the url contains a double backslash. How does one properly escape this?

Update: Below is the yml playbook file.

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I think you probably want to url encode that instead of just trying to escape those characters.

http://cijboss:8080/jenkins/job/prod/186/org.myorg%5C%24ear/artifact/org.org/ear/3.0.0-SNAPSHOT/ear-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT.ear

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Thank you. I am still getting 404’s on that URL when fed through the playbook. Was trying to exhaust all options before submitting a bug request. Any other ideas?

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Are you using Ansible 2.0? If so, it might be related to this: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/14172