__accessing_protected_data

When accessing data generated from JIRA, you may find that access to some resources requires user authentication (i.e. requires you to login). There are three options for this:

1. To enable access to data without logging in, your JIRA administrator may specify the 'Browse' permission for Anyone.
2. You can provide the request parameter os_authType=basic (e.g. http://mycompany.com/anypage?os_authType=basic). This will force the server to issue a challenge for user credentials (i.e. a login prompt) via the basic http authentication protocol. If you are running over SSL, you still need to specify the os_authType=basic parameter if you require the user to authenticate.