JIRA Rest API Login using C#

Question

I've written below C# code to login to JIRA Rest API:

var url = new Uri("http://localhost:8090/rest/auth/latest/session?os_username=tempusername&os_password=temppwd");

var request = WebRequest.Create(url) as HttpWebRequest;

if (null == request)

{

return "";

}

request.Method = "POST";

request.ContentType = "application/json";

request.ContentLength = 200;

request.KeepAlive = false;

using (var response = request.GetResponse() as HttpWebResponse)

{

}

When I execute this, application just goes on running without returning any response. Please suggest if this is the right way of calling JIRA Loin using REST API

Harry Chan5 · Answer

Hi, as you are sending data via POST, you cannot simply add os_username and os_password to your URI string. Refer to the WebRequest documentation on how this can be done in C#.

Please refer to this link for an example on basic REST API authentication.

If you need OAuth, refer to this link.

Will Burton · Answer

It's there a reason you only want to login? I generally just use HTTP Basic Auth with my REST request.