Credentials needed for webrequest to Jira?

[Vinnie Bartilucci]

Trying to build a service that will grab info on a JIRA ticket based on an ID passed to it.

I'm calling the API to take the ID passed to the service, tack it onto the URL for the API and get the JSON object.

Problem is, it appears one must be logged on or registered on JIRA in order to use the API.

So if I use the code below to make my request, I get a 404 error, as I do on any browser which I've not used to log onto Jira

public string Get(string id)
 {
 string html = string.Empty;
 string url = @"https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/latest/issue/" + id;
 
 HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);

using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
 using (Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream())
 using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream))
 {
 html = reader.ReadToEnd();
 }


return html;

 }

I can add credentials to the request like so

 request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("vinnie@company.com","mypassword");

but I've no idea exactly what needs sending. I've tried the email address with which I'm set up in Jira but that doesn't work.

I have a suspicion that Jira adds a cookie to my browser which it uses to validate after the initial config - is that so?  If so, what can I add/include on my web request to get it to run?

[Alexey Matveev]

If you use basic authentication, then kindly read this article

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