Self-Signed certificate error while generating oAuth Tokens for JIRA

[Pranay Verma]

Hi Community,

I'm trying to setup oAuth for a user in my project, for fetching data from JIRA.
I've been essentially following the steps mentioned in this official link : https://pypi.org/project/jira-oauth-generator/#description. 
However, I've not been able to quite get past running the code  jira_oauth_token_generator.py which essentially creates the tokens for oAuth. I know there's a self-signed certificate for my organization's JIRA setup which is something I can't change, so I just wanted to know, is there any way by which I can surpass this certificate check? If anyone has encountered and resolved such an error before, it'd be of great help.

Regards,

Pranay.

[Dario B · Accepted solution]

Hello @Pranay Verma ,

This question has been created for Jira Cloud Free, but since I can read you are using a self-signed certificate I believe this is for Jira Server. Can you kindly confirm this?

Also, if this is the case, and if the issue you are facing is that the self-signed certificate you use for Jira is not trusted by the Python app you are using, then all you have to do is to add the same self-signed certificate to certificate bundle used by python on the machine running the app. 

For further information please see:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42982143/python-requests-how-to-use-system-ca-certificates-debian-ubuntu/42982144
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10667960/python-requests-throwing-sslerror/33717517
• https://tarunlalwani.com/post/self-signed-certificates-trusting-them/

Finally, for the future, please notice that this is not the best place to get help on development  related questions. The right resources are listed in https://developer.atlassian.com/resources. 

Specifically:

• Ask the Developers Community
• Create a Developer Support Request

Cheers,
Dario

[Pranay Verma]

Hi @Dario B ,

Thanks for the response, managed to add the certificate to the certificate file used by Python and it fixed this. Yes it's being used for JIRA server.

Cheers,

Pranay

[Dario B]

I am happy to know this helped @Pranay Verma ! 

I am accepting my answer so that this thread will be marked as resolved.

Cheers,
Dario