REST API not authenticating

Leoš MAREK

Hello,

as per Basic username/pass authentication was deprecated, I have used this guide and tried with API token.

https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/manage-api-tokens-for-your-atlassian-account/

However, the curl call in example ends with a message:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
< Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:48:26 GMT
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Server: globaledge-envoy
< X-Envoy-Upstream-Service-Time: 1
< Expect-Ct: report-uri="https://web-security-reports.services.atlassian.com/expect-ct-report/atlassian-proxy", max-age=86400
< Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; preload
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< X-Xss-Protection: 1; mode=block
< Atl-Traceid: 32a85b1cbe7d6957
< Report-To: {"endpoints": [{"url": "https://dz8aopenkvv6s.cloudfront.net"}], "group": "endpoint-1", "include_subdomains": true, "max_age": 600}
< Nel: {"failure_fraction": 0.001, "include_subdomains": true, "max_age": 600, "report_to": "endpoint-1"}
< Vary: Accept-Encoding
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<
Basic authentication with passwords is deprecated. For more information, see: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/deprecation-notice-basic-auth/

 

So how are we supposed to use the API authentication?

Thanks

Prince Nyeche - ELFAPP

What headers are you passing with your curl command? You can authenticate with the below method on the cloud, either by using basic auth that's base64 encoded

curl --headers 'Authorization: Basic anZYxxxxx'

OR

Email + API token combination

curl --user 'email@example.com:APITOKEN'

Passing the correct headers, request method etc above prior to running the curl command