using API token issue

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to use a simple curl request to get details of an issue but it is failing with

{"errorMessages":["Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it."],"errors":{}}

I'm using the following Curl request

curl -D- \
-H "Authorization: Basic base64encoded(emailaddress:APIToken)" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
 "https://<site-url>/rest/api/2/issue/TEST-1"

If I hit the same url in a browser it works fine.

When I look at my API token dashboard I can see that the last accessed field updates to "a few seconds ago" when I make the curl request. If I put in a wrong base64encoded value I get an HTML response.

Wesley Harris_j9ngcq · Answer

This command worked for me on a brand new cloud site:

curl -D- --user emailaddress:apitoken https://mysite.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/TEST-1

Maybe wrong email, invalid issue, or the Content-Type header is throwing things. Try with the --user switch

thomas.guest · Answer

Thanks for the reply. It defaults to a GET by default. I've making it explicit but that also doesn't work.

Warren_mz9b4z · Answer

Hi @thomas.guest

I think that you need to pass through a method of GET, although I don't know what the syntax is like because I've never used Curl