Accessing Jira REST api running behind apache proxy

Question

I am trying to connect to Jira REST API running behind apache proxy. I tried to use python-jira module for this task and it worked fine as far as I was connecting to Jira directly, bypassing apache proxy authorization. However, with apache proxy up I am steadily getting "Err: 401 Unauthorized" error.

the problem is that I need to provide authorization credentials twice, one for proxy and one for Jira.

All tests had been done on my local VM.

apache proxy is running on standard port 80 and redirects 127.0.0.1/jira to 127.0.0.1:8080/jira
jira us running on port 8080

Here is the working curl command where:

jirauser - jira user to use for authorization jirapass
jirapassword to use for authorization
dGVzdDp3d3c= - is base64 encoded proxyuser:proxypass string

it is actually running and producing results

curl -u 'jirauser:jirapass' -X GET -H "Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp3d3c=" -H "Content-Type: application/json" "http://127.0.0.1/jira/rest/api/2/search?jql=key=DEV4"

for the python-jira module I think that I need to tweak 'options' parameter to add to 'headers' list the "Authorization: Basic dGVzdDp3d3c=" but somehow it doesn't work.

from jira import JIRA, JIRAError
import sys

username="Jira_username"
password="Jira_password"

jira_options = {
   'server': 'http://127.0.0.1/jira',
   'verify': True,
    'headers' : {
                        'X-Atlassian-Token': 'no-check',
                        'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
                        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                        'Authorization': 'Token token="dGVzdDp3d3c\="'
                }
}
try:
     jira = JIRA(
                 options    = jira_options,
                 basic_auth = (username,password),
                 validate   = True,
            )

except JIRAError as e:
     print("Failed in Jira connection initialisation with error [%s]" % e)
     sys.exit()

I also tried to do a direct call with requests librarty

r = requests.get('http://127.0.0.1/jira/rest/api/2/search?jql=key=DEV4',auth=('jirauser','jirapass'),headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json','Authorization': "Basic %s" % "dGVzdDp3d3c="})

but the result again was: 401 Error

I am getting really confused on why curl command works but python code fails what is wrong here? (since curl is working I assume this is not an issue in environment setup)

Have you tried removing the Authorization headers? It seems like that is in conflict with the basic_auth. When I have connected to jira I normally don't pass in an extra options and don't have any issues. — DaLord
I started my tests without Authorization header and it did not work. The problem is that I need first to pass through proxy authorization (and that's where I have found I need the Authorization header) and then pass through Jira authorization with basic_auth. The CURL request I showed above works. The problem is how to make python do the same work. That's when I start trying to insert Authorization parameter to headers. — A. Lein
Maybe this will help? stackoverflow.com/questions/30872740/… — DaLord

Bharat Jogdand Bharat Jogdand · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-17T12:25:15

This worked for me.

from jira import JIRA

jira_options = {
   'server': '<your jira url>',
   'verify': True,
   'headers' : {
                    'X-Atlassian-Token': 'no-check',
                    'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
               }
}

jira = JIRA(options=jira_options, basic_auth=('<username>', '<password>'), validate=True)

Accessing Jira REST api running behind apache proxy

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