401 Client Error on Api Token authentication with requests

[Simon König]

Hi,

I am currently trying to access our server via Rest API V2 via python.

To do this I followed

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/basic-auth-for-rest-apis/#get-an-api-token

and specifically for python:

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/jira/platform/rest/v2/intro/#about.

Now I already got some things working (a simple GET Issue request did just fine) but am now puzzled: I tried to implement a simple check with:

https://your-domain.atlassian.net/rest/api/2/myself on startup.

My header consists of:

{"Content-Type": "application/json"} and my auth = HTTPBasicAuth(email, api_token)

FYI: We (have to) use a self signed SSL Zertificate, thats why I used verify=False in my requests.

And even though I get Issue information, the check returns a 401 error and I can not find a Error in my script.

[Florian Bonniec]

Hi @Simon König 

You tag this post as Data Center but you are referencing Cloud documentation.

Are you using Cloud or Data Center ?

Regards

[Simon König]

Hi, sorry for the confusion. I am using DataCenter. I used another authentication and constructed my header with:

    def headers(self):

        return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {self.api_token}"}