Responses "401 Unauthorized" is not getting reflected for Get transitions endpoint

[Vuppu, Tejaswini]

When we tried hitting the Get transitions endpoint we are not getting "401 Unauthorized" error though we tried  giving invalid credentials . 

Endpoint details :

/rest/api/3/issue/{issueIdOrKey}/transitions

Could you please help us in resolving it ?

[Sunny Ape]

Hello @Vuppu, Tejaswini 

The 404 error with the message "Issue does not exist or you do not have permission to see it." that you would have received is correct, since the message tells you what you need to know... the permissions used were invalid.

401 errors are returned under different circumstances that are too difficult to describe here and you need to do some Googling to learn more.

If you do some tests, you will find that many of the Jira REST API endpoints behave the same way.