Authenticating OAuth 2.0 for outgoing web requests in Jira Automation rules
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Summary
How to authenticate OAuth 2.0 for outgoing web requests in Automation.
Solution
To authenticate over OAuth, you'll need two specific outgoing web requests. The first request will generate a token that's used in the second request to obtain the credentials needed for subsequent web requests.
First request
Common values for the Content-Type header are application/x-www-form-urlencoded ( shown below ) or application/json.
Second request
Set the value for the Authorization header to Bearer {{webhookResponse.body.access_token}} as shown below. You may need to include additional values in the form body as well.
Values provided in the webhook body are not HTML URL encoded. If a value contains a special character, $ for example, it is sent as-is instead of its HTML URL encoded equivalent of %24. If authentication is failing unexpectedly, convert special characters in values to their HTML URL encoded equivalent
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