Is the JESSIONID serialized anywhere which would allow me to match it to a Jira username?

[robert stark]

Howdy!

I'm trying to limit access to a page only to Jira/Confluence users who below to a certain special list of users (my confluence users are managed through Jira). I want to match up the JESSIONID cookie string to a particular Jira/Confluence username. Can I do this? I've done a good 2 days of research and analyzed the database(s) and the closest I can get is matching up IP addresses to usernames. But that won't work in my case because I anticipate quite a number of our users will be accessing via the same IP address.

Is this information stored anywhere where I could access it?  And without just using javascript in the browser or java on the backend? (I know there is a way to view the actual username in the HTML using javascript after the page loads, but I'd rather not do it this way). I don't want to do it in Java, I'll use PHP.

Thanks in advance for any help...

[Brant Schroeder · Accepted solution]

I would suggest just creating a group in Jira (User Management)  This group will sync to Confluence and then you can use Page Restrictions to limit access. You can learn more about page restrictions here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/page-restrictions-139414.html

[robert stark]

Thank you!