This resource requires WebSudo

[Daniel]

I'm trying to use Confluence's REST API to disable users:

# Confluence REST API Configuration
confluence_url = 'http://localhost:8888/rest/api'
confluence_token = 'token'
headers = {'Authorization': f'Bearer {confluence_token}'}
...
...
try:
# Execute the SQL query
cursor = connection.cursor()
cursor.execute(sql_query)

# Fetch the result
users = cursor.fetchall()

# Loop through users and print them out
for user, last_login in users:
print(f"User: {user}, last login: {last_login}")

# API endpoint to disable a user
disable_user_url = f"{confluence_url}/admin/user/{user}/disable"

# Making a PUT request to disable the user
response = requests.put(disable_user_url, headers=headers)

# Printing the response
print(f"Response: {response.status_code}, {response.text}")

finally:
# Close the connection
connection.close()

Ignore the indentation. The error I get is:

Response: 401, <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><status><status-code>401</status-code><message>This resource requires WebSudo.</message></status> 

Also ignore the localhost part, I'm port forwarding.

I don't understand what I need to do. I want to automate this process and run it as a cron job.

Edit because I can't comment for some reason:

I managed to get around Websudo by using my username and password with basic authentication, just had to use secrets :)

Thanks!

[David Yu]

This seems like a bug. APIs shouldn't require websudo.

[David Yu]

After some more testing, it seems that the use of cookies is not possible, and you must supply the basic auth headers with each call.

[AutomationUIUser]

Hi , we have faced a similar issue with the http://<jirahost>/rest/api/2/workflowscheme/{workflowschemeid}/workflow API on the on-premise jira instance with cookie based authentication, can you please let us know it is expected behavior?

[Craig Nodwell]

Hi @Daniel here's a page for your reference hope it helps.