I am getting 401 unauthorized error when i try upload to confluence using the below curl command

Question

curl -D- -u "ravichandra.k02:$PASSWORD" -X POST -H "X-Atlassian-Token: nocheck" -F "file=C:\Users\ravichandra.k02\Documents\AG_SprintTesting_ExitReport_3.8.1_Release updated.docx" -F "minorEdit=false" -F "comment=This is my File" "https://infosysconfluence.ad.infosys.com/rest/api/content/189693999/child/attachment" Response:100 1560 100 1116 100 444 558 222 0:00:02 0:00:02 --:--:-- 697HTTP Status 401 – Unauthorized

HTTP Status 401 – Unauthorized

Type Status Report

Message Basic Authentication Failure - Reason : AUTHENTICATED_FAILED

Description The request has not been applied because it lacks valid authentication credentials for the target resource.

Apache Tomcat/9.0.22

Moses Thomas_08kyb0 · Answer

@Ravichandra  It is clear, the error you  are receiving,  it  says you credentials is not Valid.

I would verify this user: make sure that you are using the correct username and password. Also ensure that USER  exist in Confluence  and has  the right permission to  add attachment.

As  space administrators,   space tools >  permissions check  that this  Confluence  user has the Add  permission  under  Attachments,  and View permission. If  this  page is restricted also  ensure that   the user is  added also to view  permission under Restrictions

My code is in Linux

#!/bin/bash
ATTACHMENT_ID="XXXX"
ATTACHMENTS_PATH=/home/user/ttt.txt  
#this should be the same name attachment on confluence page if the attachment exists
ATTACHMENT_URL="CONFLUENCE_URL/rest/api/content/{CONTENT_ID}/child/attachment/"
curl   -k -u  user:password  -X POST -H "X-Atlassian-Token: no-check" -F "minorEdit=true" -F "file=@$ATTACHMENTS_PATH"  $ATTACHMENT_URL$ATTACHMENT_ID/data

Now  from your Code you  are  missing    /{ATTACHMENT_ID}/data

* To get the ATTACHMENT id which you already have on you page, please go to attachments on the page click on the attachment you will find the attachment Id towards the end of the URL
* To get the CONTENT_ID, just go to attachments you will find the id on the Url.
* user is confluence user and password is user password.

I have uploaded  file successfully without issues.

Kind regards,

MO