Authenticate JIRA

Question

I have created a html form with username and password. Now I to authenticate against JIRA. I send did a POST to url /rest/auth/1/session with username and password. Post is successful.  But in the next servlet call, in my java code  JiraAuthenticationContext.getLoggedInUser is showing no user is logged in.

Alexey Matveev · Accepted Answer

Hello,

When you execute the rest/auth/1/session REST call, you get a cookie as a request. Then you have to pass this cookie in all subsequent requests. You can find more info here:

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