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Excel load via Jira API used to be great before Basic authentication deprecated

Dominic_Phillips

I’ve created a token as required, but no matter what I try, I cannot get access to Jira API anymore. I’m sure the new approach is more secure, but it’s useless if I can’t use it. Most of the VBA examples online still demonstrate the use of Basic authentication, which doesn’t help.

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Dario B

Hello @Dominic_Phillips ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Please notice that basic authentication is still available in Jira Cloud:

Basic Auth for REST API

The only difference is that now you have to use email address and API Token rather than username and password.

Therefore, there are chances you might be trying to use the API Token with bearer authentication and that's why this is not working for you. Otherwise, if this is not the case, please provide more details on what you are doing and what is failing.

For more details please see:

Cheers,
Dario

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Dario B

Hello @Dominic_Phillips ,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

Please notice that basic authentication is still available in Jira Cloud:

Basic Auth for REST API

The only difference is that now you have to use email address and API Token rather than username and password.

For more details please see:

Cheers,
Dario

Dominic_Phillips

The request header sent is:

Authorization: Basic <my jira login email address>:<token value supplied by Jira>

The response text I receive is:

Basic authentication with passwords is deprecated. For more information, see: https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-with-passwords-for-jira-and-confluence-apis-972355348.html

Regards

Dario B

Hi @Dominic_Phillips ,

The doc you receive in response is the same one I've sent.

Now, before going any further, I'd like to double-check below things:

I am not sure what you mean exactly with "token value supplied by Jira"? How do you generate the token?
Can you confirm that the string <my jira login email address>:<token value supplied by Jira> is base64 encoded?

Also:

Where are you entering the email address and API Token? Is it some app or integration or you are writing your own VB code?
Are you able to authenticate a REST API call against your instance using the same email address and api token using Curl or Postman?

Please let me know.

Cheers,
Dario

Dominic_Phillips

So your second point, in the first section, was the correct solution to the issue. Somewhere I read that it was not longer necessary to base64 encode the authorization data. Once I did this then everything worked fine when I included 'Basic' with the authorization information.

Extremely grateful for your quick response and attempts to assist me.

However, the error response text from the API:

Basic authentication with passwords is deprecated. For more information, see: https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloud/deprecation-of-basic-authentication-with-passwords-for-jira-and-confluence-apis-972355348.html

along with your online documentation suggesting that the use of 'Basic' has been deprecated is confusing and misleading

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/basic-auth-for-rest-apis/.

Cheers and thanks for your help

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