Any suggested workaround? This is a blocker for us as our builds run on multiple platforms and we can't easily fix a download location.

JENKINS-13435 is marked as a duplicate and is supposed to be fixed in 1.464.
I updated my Jenkins installation to 1.464 but JENKINS-13357 still occurs when trying to launch a slave as a service on windows 2008 x64.

{{Connecting to my.host.name
Checking if Java exists
'java' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
No Java found. Downloading JDK
Installing JDK
Installing C:\tmp2\jenkins_slave\service\jdk.exe
[jdk] $ C:\tmp2\jenkins_slave\service\jdk.exe /s /v /qn /L \"C:\tmp2\jenkins_slave\service\jdk.exe.install.log\" REBOOT=ReallySuppress INSTALLDIR=\"C:\tmp2\jenkins_slave\service\jdk\"
This version of C:\tmp2\jenkins_slave\service\jdk.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact the software publisher.
Failed to install JDK. Exit code=1
ERROR: Failed to prepare Java
jcifs.smb.SmbException: The system cannot find the file specified.
at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.checkStatus(SmbTransport.java:545)
at jcifs.smb.SmbTransport.send(SmbTransport.java:646)
at jcifs.smb.SmbSession.send(SmbSession.java:244)
at jcifs.smb.SmbTree.send(SmbTree.java:119)
at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.send(SmbFile.java:770)
at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.open0(SmbFile.java:982)
at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.open(SmbFile.java:999)
at jcifs.smb.SmbFileInputStream.<init>(SmbFileInputStream.java:74)
at jcifs.smb.SmbFileInputStream.<init>(SmbFileInputStream.java:66)
at jcifs.smb.SmbFile.getInputStream(SmbFile.java:2833)
at hudson.os.windows.WindowsRemoteFileSystem.read(WindowsRemoteFileSystem.java:41)
at hudson.tools.JDKInstaller.install(JDKInstaller.java:242)
at hudson.os.windows.ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher.launch(ManagedWindowsServiceLauncher.java:251)
at hudson.slaves.SlaveComputer$1.call(SlaveComputer.java:200)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Copying jenkins-slave.xml
Copying slave.jar
Starting the service

• NOT DOING ANYTHING AFTER THAT *}}

The url changed from
http://download.oracle.com/otn/java/jdk/7u15-b03/jdk-7u15-linux-x64.tar.gz
to
http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u51-b13/jdk-7u51-linux-x64.tar.gz

Same problem here:

Installing JDK jdk-7u40-oth-JPR
Downloading JDK from http://download.oracle.com/otn/java/jdk/7u40-b43/jdk-7u40-linux-x64.tar.gz
Downloading 5307bytes
Installing /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh
[Sun_JDK_1.7] $ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh -noregister
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 1: html: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 2: head: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 3: title: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 4: META: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 5: link: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 6: link: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 7: $'\r': command not found
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 8: body: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 9: div: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 10: table: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 11: tr: No such file or directory
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 12: syntax error near unexpected token `<'
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/Sun_JDK_1.7/jdk.sh: line 12: ` <td rowspan="2" valign="middle" nowrap><a href="http://www.oracle.com"><img src="/errors/us/assets/oralogo-small.gif" width="154" height="19" hspace="10" vspace="25" border="0" ></a></td>
'
ERROR: Failed to install JDK. Exit code=2

As a workaround I download the JDK manually and place it in Jenkins /cache directory. The filenames and location must be adopted according to the existing files. Even though this is a manual step the effort to bring the JDK to several build nodes is reasonable.

We just upgraded to 1.556 and cleared out the cache. Looks like this is still happening:

[EnvInject] - Loading node environment variables.
Installing JDK jdk-8-oth-JPR
Downloading JDK from http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8-b132/jdk-8-linux-x64.tar.gz
Downloading 5307bytes
Installing /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh
[jdk-cbh] $ /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh -noregister
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 1: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open html: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 2: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open head: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 3: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open title: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 3: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: Request: not found
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 4: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open META: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 5: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open link: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 6: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open link: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 7: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh:
: not found
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 8: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open body: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 9: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open div: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 10: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open table: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 11: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: cannot open tr: No such file
/var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: 12: /var/lib/jenkins/tools/hudson.model.JDK/jdk-cbh/jdk.sh: Syntax error: redirection unexpected
ERROR: SEVERE ERROR occurs

Same error here, on an existent working version 1.542 which was working ok, and on a recently installed 1.555....any hint on why has this reappeared? is it an ORACLE issue?

Do you have an example of how the manually downloaded java files names and directories must be?

Same issue here. In which format do I have to put the manually downloaded JDK into the (master's?) cache directory for the workaround, my Jenkins doesn't seem to recognize it.

Edit: After installing default-jdk via apt on Debian, the Jenkins slave was able to download JDK1.7.0_25

In 1.557, Jenkins adjusted to a change in Oracle's web site to be again able to download installers. Tracked as JENKINS-22347.

If you encounter an issue similar to this one on a recent Jenkins version, please file a new issue instead of reopening this one. The cause is probably a different one. Thanks!