Confluence REST API acting like Waldo

[joseph nguyen]

My confluence instance does NOT use the Context "confluence"

I made sure that XML RPC was enabled in my administration console, however this URL does not work:

"http://my_host/confluence/rest/api/content/123456789?status=any" and the same URL with out the status=any, still to no avail.

I tried this on the command line and in a browser tab where I had logged in to confluence.  I am using Confluence 5.0.3.  Please help.

Thank you for your time.

[joseph nguyen]

Thanks Stephen!  This was helpful.  I modified my URL based off of your comment and I was able to perform a REST call using this: http://myhost.com/rest/prototype/1/content/123456789

I will take a look at the XML-RPC API.  On a side note, did you ever work for a company called Avega (name sound familiar)?

[Stephen Deutsch]

No, I never did, and it doesn't really sound familiar... sorry :(

[Stephen Deutsch]

Hi Joseph,

Unfortunately you are trying to use the new REST API, which is only active in Confluence 5.5 or higher.  You will instead have to use the prototype REST API as documented here: https://docs.atlassian.com/confluence/REST/5.0.3/

The proper URL to get what you want then would be similar to: http://myhost.com:8080/confluence/rest/prototype/1/content/123456789

Be aware that the prototype REST API is read only.  If you want to do write functions, you will have to use the XML-RPC API, which is a little different.