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Trying to access Confluence using Basic Authentication

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How can I activate Basic Authentication on my Jira instance?

I am getting an error response: Basic auth with password is not allowed on this instance

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Ilya Turov

Hello, basic authentication has been deprecated recently:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/deprecation-notice-basic-auth-and-cookie-based-auth/

"update your app or integration to use API tokens, OAuth, or Atlassian Connect"

unknown

Hi, thank you for your quick response.

I created an api token, concatenated it with the email and encoded it to base64 and added as a header field. Can I still use this way to access Confluence?

Ilya Turov

I'm not 100% sure, but as far as I understand, token is created for the account to access any cloud products it has access to, so yes

Lukas Gotter _ Meetical

Hi Enido,

Basic Auth still works on Confluence Cloud, but you have to use an Atlassian API Token as password and your Atlassian Id email as username.

You will get the error "Basic auth with password is not allowed on this instance" also if you provide a wrong username/password. This should be fixed by Atlassian to avoid confusion.

So try again with a valid Atlassian Id + API token.

Example:

GET https://<your-instance-name>.atlassian.net/wiki/rest/api/content/123123
Content-Type: application/json
Accept: application/json
Authorization: Basic yourBase64EncodedUsernameColonPassword

Good luck!

Stephane.arenas

Hi @Lukas Gotter _ Meetical ,

On my side If I do a test with Insomnia :

Auth->Basic
Username : the e-mail link on my Atlassian account
Password : Token generated by https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens

It's work fine

But If I do the same test in VBA with MSXML2.XMLHTTP60 and I setRequestHeader "Authorization", "Basic " & sEncbase64Auth

I alway have an empty response while I use the same credential

Do you have any idea from the reason of this specific response on VBA ?

Below my VBA code:

Private Function UserPassBase64(text As String) As String
Dim objXML As MSXML2.DOMDocument60
Dim objNode As MSXML2.IXMLDOMElement
Dim arrData() As Byte

arrData = StrConv(text, vbFromUnicode)

Set objXML = New MSXML2.DOMDocument60
Set objNode = objXML.createElement("b64")
objNode.DataType = "bin.base64"
objNode.nodeTypedValue = arrData

UserPassBase64 = objNode.text

End Function

Sub test()
Dim JiraService As New MSXML2.XMLHTTP60
Dim sUsername As Variant
Dim sPassword As Variant
Dim sRestAntwort As Variant

Dim sStatus As Variant
Dim sEncbase64Auth As Variant

sUsername = "" 'Atlassian e-mail of your account
sPassword = "" 'Token generated by https://id.atlassian.com/manage/api-tokens

sEncbase64Auth = UserPassBase64(sUsername & ":" & sPassword)

With JiraService
.Open "GET", "https://xxxxxxx.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project", False
.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8"

.setRequestHeader "Accept", "application/json"
.setRequestHeader "Authorization", "Basic " & sEncbase64Auth
.send
sRestAntwort = .responseText
sStatus = .Status & " | " & .statusText
Debug.Print "--------" & Now & "--------"
Debug.Print sRestAntwort
Debug.Print sStatus
Debug.Print "--------" & Now & "--------"
End With
End Sub

Result:

--------23/01/2020 16:52:02--------
[]
200 |
--------23/01/2020 16:52:02--------

xwlee

Awesome, it works.

Lukas Gotter _ Meetical

@Stephane.arenas - interesting, because from what I understand in your VB code (wow, long time no see VB! ) - you get an empty json array as response. Are you sure you have the rights to browse projects? can you try another endpoint? can you reproduce the request with curl or something similar?

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