Fetch an image from api.media.atlassian.com - Authentication

[jallen]

My company is using Confluence Cloud.

I'm fetching a page from Confluence cloud (successfully, with a Perl app, but I'm talking any client), and the page has an attachment. When I GET the attachment, I get a 302 redirect, with a location.

Ok, but the location is at api.media.atlassian.com, and I'm using basic auth to get my pages. When I try to get my resource (an image) at the new location, I get this:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

. . .a bunch of other stuff. . .

{"error":{"code":"ForbiddenError","title":"This resource requires authorization","href":"https://api.media.atlassian.com#AuthenticationGuide"}}

(Typing https://api.media.atlassian.com#AuthenticationGuide into a browser gives me a http 403.)

So how do I authenticate my client to api.media.atlassian? basic auth doesn't do it, my user id in a cookie doesn't do it; In the Web interface to Confluence Cloud, my browser receives a cookie called 'ajs_anonymous_id', but passing that cookie to api.media.atlassian doesn't work.

Suggestions welcome. . .

[jallen · Accepted solution]

Yes, sorry, but perhaps someone else can benefit from my mistake. . .

I was using cURL to try to fetch the image.  When I put the uri from the 'location' into quotes, it worked.

The authentication is in the 'token' part of the uri.  The token expires after some time, not sure how long.

[Nasar Ibrahim]

what does this mean in plain simple English imagine you are explaining it to a 7 year old

i got the same error just trying to understand what it could mean

thanks in advance  

[Nasar Ibrahim]

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