JIRA authentication via REST/JSON/AJAX

Robert Spawn October 13, 2013

I'm trying to build a page to raise an issue in our JIRA instance that will be hosted on our SharePoint 2013 site, but I'm having trouble geting authenticated to JIRA.

I CAN submit a request via cur using this command:

curl -D- -k -3 -o "result.html" -w HTML -H "Authorization: Basic XXXXXXXXXX" -X POST --data "{\"fields\"....}}}", -H "Content-Type: application/json" https://jira.mycompany.com/jira/rest/api/2/issue/

But when I try to do the same in my page, I keep getting an 'Access Denied' message. I've tried several varitations, but here is my current code:

$.ajax({
        url: "https://jira.mycompany.com/jira/rest/api/2/issue",
	header: {
		Authorization : "Basic XXXXXXXX",
		contentType : "application/json, json; charset=utf-8"
		},
        type: "POST",
        data: {
	"project" : ......

I've tried this on our production (v5.2.5) and our dev (6.0.8) sites with the same results.

I've tried this also, but get the same results:

$.ajax
  ({
    type: "POST",
    url: "https://jira.mycompany.com/jira/rest/auth/1/session",
    dataType: 'json',
    async: false,
    data: '{"username": "username", "password" : "xxxxxx"}',
    success: function (result) {
            switch (result) {
                case true:
                    processResponse(result);
					alert("It worked!");
                    break;
                default:
                    resultDiv.html(result);
            }
        },
	error: function (xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) {
        alert(xhr.status);
        alert(thrownError);
    }
});

If someone could get me pointed in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it!

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Bharadwaj Jannu
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October 13, 2013
Robert Spawn October 13, 2013

Our JIRA instances are not be any type of proxy servers.
The examples mentioned in the post refer to CURL examples, and as I stated, when using CURL it works just fine.

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