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Gunnlaugur
Gunnlaugur

Reputation: 341

JIRA REST API - Basic Authentication

I'm trying to use curl to retrieve jira issue from my company server without any luck so far.

I've tested both examples described here JIRA REST API Example - Basic Authentication with no success. I base64 encoded my user and password as described in the "Supplying Basic Auth headers" example and entered the url for the issue I want to get. I tested the url in browser I get the json document so the url is correct.

This is what my command looks like

someuser@somehost:~$ curl -D- -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic base64encodedstringhere -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira.acme.com/rest/api/2/issue/KEY-666

And I then get prompt with ">" but no json document. Is there something I'm missing or doing wrong?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6399

Answers (1)

James McLeod
James McLeod

Reputation: 2406

Don't encode the user name and password - curl already handles this!

curl -u "username:password" -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira.acme.com/rest/api/2/issue/KEY-666

If you need to specify basic authentication, do it like this:

curl -D- -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic usernamesndpasswordbase64 -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira.acme.com/rest/api/2/issue/KEY-666

where the username-and-password string is username:password encoded together e.g. via

echo username:password | base64 | sed /Cg==/s///

Both of these work for me on curl under Cygwin.

Upvotes: 5

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