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REST API Returns Unauthorised from 18/06/2019

Paul Nunn
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June 18, 2019

Running an API which uses basic Authentication to retrieve issue items in our Cloud JIRA instance. yesterday these where working fine, unfortunately from this morning I am only getting Unauthorised no matter what credentials I use. tried using PostMan app and still getting the Unauthorised message

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June 18, 2019

They've deprecated it and turning it off, guess you gotta switch to OAuth:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/deprecation-notice-basic-auth-and-cookie-based-auth/

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June 20, 2019

Switched to Use API Tokens

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