403 Error from Node12 works in POSTMAN and CURL

[Diego Link]

Calling basic the Get Issue API returns a 403. 

URL:

https://{myorg}.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/{issue_id}

stopped working April 27, 2025 - from the server. No code changed.  This call works  just fine if I make the same call using curl  on the machine

Returns 403 error: Forbidden: Error

return axios({
method: options.method || 'GET',
headers: { Authorization: `Basic ${basicAuthToken}` },
url,
data,
}).then(res => res)
.catch(error => this.getJiraError(error));
}

Works fine from the same machine

curl --location 'https://{myorg}.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/issue/157159' --header 'Authorization: Basic {base64token'}

[Diego Link]

Answering my own question for anyone who has to support legacy Node application making requests to atlassian apis.

My current theory is that Axios .26 is just not compatible at the protocol level. 

We changed it to fetch calls and it works fine:

FROM:

return axios({
method: options.method || 'GET',
headers: { Authorization: `Basic ${basicAuthToken}` },
url,
data,
}).then(res => res)

TO:

 return fetch(url, reqOptions).then(res => res.json().then((result) => {
console.log('JIRA FETCH REQUEST RESULT', url, result);
return { data: result };
}))