Can access /rest/api/3/project from browser, not with curl

Question

I can access the REST endpoint with the browser.

I created an API key and Postman and curl both return [] for this call.

This is the error I receive when I use the -v setting on curl:

< report-to: {"endpoints": [{"url": "https://dz8hshshs6s.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"}

Kishan Sharma · Answer

x-seraph-loginreason: AUTHENTICATED_FAILED

Suggests that the credentials provided are incorrect, since this is for Jira cloud, please ensure you are using API token generated from your user profile instead of a password for BASE64 encoding.

svanschalkwyk · Answer

I tried that - all variations.

HTTP/2 200
date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:45:19 GMT
content-type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
server: AtlassianEdge
timing-allow-origin: *
x-arequestid: d1bf891d3ca1773eab7f0ae6fedccd0a
x-seraph-loginreason: AUTHENTICATED_FAILED
set-cookie: atlassian.xsrf.token=e7767868c8aaa758ff4b+++++++++++++25846_lout; Path=/; SameSite=None; Secure
cache-control: no-cache, no-store, no-transform
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
atl-traceid: 3d72e0281fbb4d00bd44b315688395db
strict-transport-security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
report-to: {"endpoints": [{"url": "https://dz----v6s.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"}

Kishan Sharma · Answer

You can try this -

curl 'https://mysite.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/project' --header 'Accept: application/json' --header 'Authorization: Basic mybase64encodedtoken'

Please change mysite and mybase64encodedtoken in your example and retry.

You can construct and send basic auth headers. To do this you perform the following steps:

* Generate an API token for Jira using your Atlassian Account.
* Build a string of the form useremail:api_token.
* BASE64 encode the string.* Linux/Unix/MacOS:
echo -n user@example.com:api_token_string | base64

* Windows 7 and later, using Microsoft Powershell:
$Text = ‘user@example.com:api_token_string’
$Bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($Text)
$EncodedText = [Convert]::ToBase64String($Bytes)
$EncodedText

* Supply an Authorization header with content Basic followed by the encoded string. For example, the string fred:fred encodes to ZnJlZDpmcmVk in base64, so you would make the request as follows:curl -D- \
-X GET \
-H "Authorization: Basic ZnJlZDpmcmVk" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
"https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/issue/QA-31"