CAPTCHA issue while loggin in jira.atlassian.com with REST API

Question

Hi,

I am trying to access jira.atlassian.com with REST API using cookie based authentication, and few of my earlier login attempts failed. Now i am continuously getting below in the response

Headers:

X-Authentication-Denied-Reason → CAPTCHA_CHALLENGE; login-url=https://jira.atlassian.com/login.jsp

X-Seraph-LoginReason → AUTHENTICATION_DENIED

Body:

{
 "errorMessages": [
 "Login denied"
 ],
 "errors": {}
}

Can anyone please tell me how should i reset this on my account. I tried logging out, then clearing the cookies and relogging in to my account, but while logging in, i donot get any captcha screen while logging in from browser and am able to login to my account from the browser.

Petar Petrov _Appfire_ · Answer

I get the same behavior and I have not had a failed login. I think that for this particular instance only authentication through id.atlassian.com is allowed. Basic authentication yields the same results.

By the way, most of the resources there are accessible for anonymous users - do you need to specifically target jira.atlassian.com?

Clemens Robbenhaar · Answer

When you login via browser, you log in via id.atlassian.com, not directly to JIRA. Maybe this prevents to reset the "failed login" counter in jira.atlassian.com, so you would need to contact a JIRA admin at Atlassian to clear the "failed login" counter for your account.

Bhavik Kawli · Answer

Hi,

I am trying to do it with HttpsURLConnection in java, and also tried with Postman extension from chrome.

I am not sending any cookies. I am trying to access below url with the details as follows:

URL: https://jira.atlassian.com/rest/auth/1/session

Headers: Content-Type: application/json

Body: { "username": "<account id mentioned on id.atlassian.com services", "password": "<password>" }

Getting 403 response