Rest API requests NOT working with any other tool than "Rest API Browser" - received 403 forbidden error

Question

I am working on REST API stuff and mainly working with "Rest API Browser" add-on.

Whenever i try to post any request from this add-on say creating test cycle, test steps etc the request gets proccessed within few mins with success code(200) however if i try to do same thing with any tool [say gatling] i am receiving an error 403-forbidden, i have rechecked all the request headers and those seems to be fine and correct.

I am not sure why i am not able to post the request through any other tool than "Rest API Browser" tool.

Kindly help me in getting this sorted.

Kind regards,

Siddhi.

Siddhi Kalamkar · Answer

HI Jeff,

The issue is related to the custom value generation in the request header of the same API which is going to use the request header with the auto-generated value [here the value is AO-7DEABF].

Could u please assist me in handling the same? I want to extract this value from request header and want to pass it in the same request header.

Siddhi Kalamkar · Answer

I tried to pass all the possible headers but still received 403-forbidden..

could you please help me in identifying the mandatory authentication headers which needs to be passed?

Jeff_6i2s3d · Answer

Apologies I am not very familiar with the Zephyr APIs as they are not a native part of the Atlassian platform. However some quick googling indicates that you may be able to pass a base64 encoded version of a username/pwd hash in the headers (as shown in this ticket https://support.getzephyr.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/200998059-Authentication-issue-in-ZAPI) which might do the trick.

I also found this resource which has some example code to get you started, and that seems to confirm my suspicion above (https://support.getzephyr.com/hc/en-us/articles/202465959-Sample-Create-a-Test-Cycle-and-Add-Existing-Tests).