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Getting session cookie from jira cloud /rest/auth/1/session does not work

M K_rkwwxm

I am trying to get a session cookie from:

POST

https://xxx.atlassian.net/rest/auth/1/session

{"username":"aaaa","password":"bbbb"}

I am pretty sure that the provided credentials are correct - I can login with them in the web interface. However the call made with Postman always returns:

{ "errorMessages": [ "Login failed" ], "errors": {}}

There is no response header that would give any more information why it fails.

What could be the reason? I was thinking that maybe it is catpcha, but I cannot check that, as I always get redirected to https://id.atlassian.com when I try to access the Jira login page directly.

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DPKJ

@M KCookie based authentication has been deprecated and removed for Jira cloud in favor of token based basic authentication.

You can learn more from this notification which is more then 6 months old - https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/deprecation-notice-basic-auth-and-cookie-based-auth/

M K_rkwwxm

Thank you for the information. I understand that token based authentication only applies to Jira cloud. Is there a way to implement authentication in javascript that would work for both Jira cloud and Jira server?

Cookie based authentication did work well for both server types.

DPKJ

@M KI made a small script in NodeJS for copying attachment from Server to Cloud (and vice versa), and I used BasicAuth for both. The only difference is in server/dc environment you have to use 'username' and 'password' combo whereas in cloud you have to use 'email' and 'api token' combo, when I made a UI for this, in form I mentioned this for users.

So I think BasicAuth is good enough for these kind of use cases.

M K_rkwwxm

Thank you. In the older server versions I am using a call to /session to get a session cookie. I guess I will have to change that to basic auth.

When calling jira server with username / password, do you encode the string to base64 like when calling jira Cloud?

M K_rkwwxm

That would be great, I thank you in advance. May I ask your name? My name is Marek.

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