Howto authenticate to JIRA via REST using crowd

[Stefan Zeller]

We have JIRA behind a CROWD server and I want to use the REST service of JIRA.

I authenticate to JIRA with the rest URL https://jira.mycompany.com/rest/auth/1/session

I get back the JSESSIONID, which is fine. But any following call to the JIRA REST service including the JSESSIONID fails. After investigating I found out that the crowd token is missing (crowd.token_key=...).

How do I get this token programatically via REST?

Or more generally asked: What is the best practice to achieve REST calls to JIRA when it's behind a CROWD server?

Thanks and regards

Stefan

[Dave Thomas]

As long as you have a JSESSIONID, you should be fine. Our instance of Jira is integrated with Crowd and we've scripted extensively against Jira without doing anything special. I've never heard of anyone needing a crowd token key. Perhaps you're talking about Jira's form token handling? Here's how to get around that:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRADEV/Form+Token+Handling

[Chris Whitten [Comskil]]

@Dave Thomas how did you get the JSESSIONID? I think the crowd token key is needed with use for SSO.