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Authenticating Confluence using Basic authentication

Abilash G

How to do REST calls to confluence using Basic authentication? I always get this exception

"StatusCode: 401, ReasonPhrase: 'Unauthorized', X-Seraph-LoginReason: AUTHENTICATION_DENIED....."

This happens to come even if user name and password are correct. I some where read it happens when CAPTCHA is triggered. I am not even able to disable captcha from settings. This is troubling a lot, I appreciate any suggestion or solution to the above mentioned issue. I am using C# to do web requests.

Thanks,

Abilash

Accepted answers

Abilash G

Resolved: For login name I was using complete email address, it should be the username not email address.

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TõnisO

Are you (really) sure you are:

using proper credentials
encoding the credentials correctly
setting the Authorization header properly

Abilash G

Yes, I have used proper credentials, indeed I used the C# REST library for trying to connect.

This is the code it has connecting:

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri(url);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Basic " + Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["username"] + ":" + ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["password"]))); 
HttpResponseMessage response = client.GetAsync(urlParameters).Result;

TõnisO

Yeah, I looked at the library source. On first glance everything looks OK and functional but have you looked at the actual requests your application is sending, with Wireshark or maybe even by just logging it out in your application? Does the header actually exist in the Request object? Maybe the library silently fails somehow and doesn't add the header..

Abilash G

Ya, I used Fiddler and saw that the headers were set properly.

Abilash G

Resolved: For login name I was using complete email address, it should be the username not email address.

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