Jira REST login with password is being deprecated

Question

I'm confused at this point how I should be authenticating with the Jira cloud REST API.

I've seen that authenticating using a password is going to be deprecated so you need to generate an API token.  I'm confused as to how to use the API token in requests.

Is it as simple as creating an http header such as

Authorization: Basic dHVsc2FAZG1zaS5jb206eH

or is there more to it than that?

Alexey Matveev · Answer

You are most welcome!

Brad Hayes · Answer

Thank you so much for the clarification.  I had done that but was afraid at some point thigns would suddenly stop working.

brad

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Hello,

It is the same like using the user name and password but change password with the API token. That is all (you still need to base64 it.)