diff --git a/tools/jenkins-scripts/post-build.py b/tools/jenkins-scripts/post-build.py
index 184b56b900..78f7ddf735 100644
--- a/tools/jenkins-scripts/post-build.py
+++ b/tools/jenkins-scripts/post-build.py
@@ -5,9 +5,7 @@ import jenkinsapi
 from jenkinsapi.jenkins import Jenkins
 from jenkinsapi.constants import STATUS_SUCCESS
 
-http_proxy = ''
-if(os.environ.has_key('HTTP_PROXY')):
-    http_proxy = os.environ['HTTP_PROXY']
+payload_str = os.environ['payload']
 payload_str = payload_str.decode('utf-8','ignore')
 #parse to json obj
 payload = json.loads(payload_str)
@@ -31,6 +29,8 @@ if(result == STATUS_SUCCESS):
 else:
     data['state'] = "failure"
 
-http_proxy = os.environ['HTTP_PROXY']
+http_proxy = ''
+if(os.environ.has_key('HTTP_PROXY')):
+    http_proxy = os.environ['HTTP_PROXY']
 proxyDict = {'http':http_proxy,'https':http_proxy}
 requests.post(statuses_url, data=json.dumps(data), headers=Headers, proxies = proxyDict)