Authorizing HTTP POST in a C# app

[Dennis F Peters]

Hello, I've been running into issues with getting Jira to accept authorization from requests sent by an app I'm building using .NET. 

When running the same request through cURL I am able to validate without any problems using both the token and username/password. However, inside of the app I cannot validate with either the token or username/password. I have not triggered the CAPTCHA either (yet).

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Jira Version: 9.12.1

EXAMPLE CODE

var authenticationString = $"{email}:{token}";
var base64EncodedAuthenticationString = Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetBytes(authenticationString));
var request = new HttpRequestMessage()
{
RequestUri = new System.Uri($"{baseUri}/rest/api/2/issue/"),
Method = HttpMethod.Post,
Content = new StringContent(unimportant)
};
request.Headers.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("basic", base64EncodedAuthenticationString);
request.Headers.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
var response = await client.SendAsync(request);