drakma: How to pass JIRA API token for requests?

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drakma: How to pass JIRA API token for requests?

212 Views Asked by user3735178 At 05 April 2025 at 15:33

When I do the following, passing my JIRA API token ...

curl --verbose --request GET \
     --url 'https://myJira.atlassian.net/....' \
     --user '[email protected]:my_jira_api_token' ...

... the operation succeeds and I see one of the headers was:

Authorization: Basic encodedAuthInfoHere

How would I do the same with Drakma? :basic-authorization takes a list of username and password. But JIRA says basic auth has been deprecated.

(drakma:http-request url
                     :method :get
                     :basic-authorization '(email passwd)
                     ...

Is there a way to perform the same encoding that curl used, and add the header explicitly when calling http-request? Thanks in advance!

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coredump On 12 March 2021 at 09:07

You can pass :parameters to the request:

USER> (drakma:http-request "http://example.com"
                           :method :get
                           :parameters '(("user" . "token")))

The reply is:

"<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Example Domain</title>

    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <meta name="viewport" conten...[sly-elided string of length 1256]"
200 (8 bits, #xC8, #o310, #b11001000)
((:AGE . "507992") (:CACHE-CONTROL . "max-age=604800")
 (:CONTENT-TYPE . "text/html; charset=UTF-8")
 .....)
#<URI http://example.com/?user=token>
#<FLEXI-STREAMS:FLEXI-IO-STREAM {101D4A3723}>
T
"OK"

In particular, the 4th returned value, the URI the reply comes from, is:

http://example.com/?user=token

**chrnybo** · Accepted Answer

Like for curl, Drakma's password can be whatever you want it to be, so you can insert the jira token as in you did with curl.

Would

(setf drakma:*header-stream* *standard-output*)
(drakma:http-request "https://myJira.atlassian.net/...."
  :method :get
  :basic-authorization '("[email protected]" "my_jira_api_token"))

spark joy?

I'd expect drakma to create a string [email protected]:my_jira_api_token, base64-encode it, and append it to "Authorization: Basic ", so you'd get a header like this:

Authorization: Basic bXlfZW1haWxAZG9tYWluLmNvbTpteV9qaXJhX2FwaV90b2tlbg==

If your curl example is complete, Drakma should get you as far as curl does.

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