JIRA authentication via REST/JSON/AJAX

[Robert Spawn]

I'm trying to build a page to raise an issue in our JIRA instance that will be hosted on our SharePoint 2013 site, but I'm having trouble geting authenticated to JIRA.

I CAN submit a request via cur using this command:

curl -D- -k -3 -o "result.html" -w HTML -H "Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXX" -X POST --data "{\"fields\"....}}}", -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira.mycompany.com/jira/rest/api/2/issue/

But when I try to do the same in my page, I keep getting an 'Access Denied' message. I've tried several varitations, but here is my current code:

$.ajax({
        url: "https://jira.mycompany.com/jira/rest/api/2/issue",
	header: {
		Authorization : "Basic XXXXXXXX",
		contentType : "application/json, json; charset=utf-8"
		},
        type: "POST",
        data: {
	"project" : ......

I've tried this on our production (v5.2.5) and our dev (6.0.8) sites with the same results.

I've tried this also, but get the same results:

$.ajax
  ({
    type: "POST",
    url: "https://jira.mycompany.com/jira/rest/auth/1/session",
    dataType: 'json',
    async: false,
    data: '{"username": "username", "password" : "xxxxxx"}',
    success: function (result) {
            switch (result) {
                case true:
                    processResponse(result);
					alert("It worked!");
                    break;
                default:
                    resultDiv.html(result);
            }
        },
	error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
        alert(xhr.status);
        alert(thrownError);
    }
});

If someone could get me pointed in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it!

[Bharadwaj Jannu]

you check https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/203977/jira-api-basic-authentication-not-work

and try.

[Robert Spawn]

Our JIRA instances are not be any type of proxy servers.
The examples mentioned in the post refer to CURL examples, and as I stated, when using CURL it works just fine.