Users HTTP or REST

[Aitor Bermejo Cacho]

Hello all,

when I go to system->user sessions, I see that some type users connect via Rest and other one use HTTP...

Why some of them connect Rest and other one HTTP? its the browser or what?

Thank you!

[Tarun Sapra · Accepted solution]

Hello @Aitor Bermejo Cacho 

Lot of users connect to Jira via REST. This can be bot accounts or accounts which are getting some information from JIra and then processing it further.

For example you can have a bot account which adds comments on Jira ticket after every Jenkins job or similar automation. 

Some times you are using some reporting tools which fetch worklogs of Users via REST API and then display them

Users connected via HTTP are the normal users which are using Jira via web browser.

[Aitor Bermejo Cacho]

Wow, thank you @Tarun Sapra 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Be aware that also

Some people can think clumsily and script stuff over http (don't do that, it's clumsy, push them to use REST instead)

A lot of REST calls attributed to accounts can be coming from functions in the Jira UI.  When a person visits a Jira dashboard for example, each gadget that works with issue data runs a REST call back to the core of Jira to get the information it needs.  Other reports and boards do things this way as well.  Your logging of REST is often getting "ordinary" browser activity!