Update auth method by token

[morphalus]

Authentication method has apparently been updated at Jira company.

Tell me if I am wrong but i had to do those modifications to make it work.

Please, read NOTE FOR PR REVIEWER in modifications (I should have put that in PR comment, I know)

[ahungry]

I think you're mixing up PATs (personal access tokens) and basic auth (which is largely old/deprecated).

[morphalus]

https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/manage-api-tokens-for-your-atlassian-account/ but okay...

curl -v https://mysite.atlassian.net --user [email protected]:my-api-token

Indeed, it is a Basic Auth method but that uses user:token.

[ahungry]

You're right - my apologies for being brief 😄 - based on this thread, it seems it may be a bug/inconsistency on the Jira side that this has stopped working as documented:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Jira-authentication-method-Bearer-token-is-not-working/qaq-p/1932923

When I skimmed the PR, I was reading the link 2 lines above your diff, where the PAT page specifically is linked and still suggests using Bearer: https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/using-personal-access-tokens-1026032365.html#UsingPersonalAccessTokens-UsingPATs

I'll re-open, but I think we should wait before changing the docs, to see if they fix on their end (though it apparently has been a problem for most of 2024).

[morphalus]

Indeed it is a strange method of using Bearer tokens by Jira 😅 I thought it was weird too so you're right, we should wait because they apparently broke something.

I guess they do not understand anymore their own software architecture or something like that. It should have already been fixed since then...