Cannot login jira with api using javascript

Question

Currently I am trying to write a script in node.js to achieve following actions:

1. Login jira;

2. Create issue.

Here is my login code:

client.post('https://jira.stubcorp.com/login.jsp?permissionViolation=true', {
 data: {
 username: 'username',
 password: 'password'
 },
 headers: {
 "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8",
 "Content-Type": "application/json"
 }
}, function (data, response) {
 // ...
}

In response, I cannot find seraph.rememberme.cookie to set in create jira api headers or valid JSESSIONID (as when I use the JSESSIONID in response header, create jira api always raise 401 error.)

Please help to check where goes wrong.

Thanks.

David Ren · Answer

Thanks.

I tried, but always return 401 error code,

client.post('https://jira.example.com/rest/auth/2/session', {
 data: {
  username,
  password
 },
 headers: {
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
 }
}, function (data, response) {
 // ...
})

Also, I find that the atlassian.xsrf.token always end with |lout, which should be |lin I think.

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Hello,

You are trying to do cookie authentication in Jira. You are not doing it the right way. Kindly read the following article

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/jira-rest-api-cookie-based-authentication/