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+bugfixes:

+  - winrm - preserve winrm forensic data on put_file failures

@@ -621,9 +621,16 @@ class Connection(ConnectionBase):

         if result.status_code != 0:

             raise AnsibleError(to_native(result.std_err))

-        put_output = json.loads(result.std_out)

-        remote_sha1 = put_output.get("sha1")

+        try:

+            put_output = json.loads(result.std_out)

+        except ValueError:

+            # stdout does not contain a valid response

+            stderr = to_bytes(result.std_err, encoding='utf-8')

+            if stderr.startswith(b"#< CLIXML"):

+                stderr = _parse_clixml(stderr)

+            raise AnsibleError('winrm put_file failed; \nstdout: %s\nstderr %s' % (to_native(result.std_out), to_native(stderr)))

+        remote_sha1 = put_output.get("sha1")

         if not remote_sha1:

             raise AnsibleError("Remote sha1 was not returned")