Basic authentication on Jira server instance always returns 401 unauthorized.

[Shashi Gmail]

While making the the following call

curl -v -H "Authorization: Basic base64encodeduseridpasswordgohere" -X GET -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira-stage.myserver.com/rest/api/2/issue/createmeta

I'm getting the 401 response back. The authentication works fine on browser. The same curl call works fine on different Jira server. Does this mean basic authentication is not supported on "jira-stage.myserver.com".

I've a connector application that uses basic authentication to synchronize data between Jira and another application so need to get basic authentication working for this instance.

HTTP/1.1 401 < Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:51:37 GMT

Server: Apache/2.4.6 (CentOS) PHP/5.4.16

X-AREQUESTID: 651x213257x1

X-ANODEID: jira_dfw9_2

X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block

X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

Content-Security-Policy: frame-ancestors 'self'

X-Seraph-LoginReason: AUTHENTICATED_FAILED

WWW-Authenticate: OAuth realm="https%3A%2F%2Fjira-stage.myserver.com"

Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Set-Cookie: NSC_mc-306476464-1-310090117=ffffffff0926324b45525d5f4f58455e445a4a4229a0;expires=Tue, 22-Sep-2020 17:51:38 GMT;path=/;httponly