1. Download Postman application on Google Chrome.
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3. The client can now set the cookie in the header for all subsequent requests to the OPEN API. If you are using browser or postman then session will be managed automatically. You don't need to set any header manually for subsequent requests. But in other cases, pass this header for all the subsequents.
headers: {cookie: JSESSIONID= 5CD9406E58A59CC41B02ED358864B98}
4. That’s it! Now, when you submit the request, the session cookie will be used to authenticate you to the JIRA server until the cookie expires.
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Detailed documentation on QMetry Open API provides all the details a developer would need for each of the API calls that are supported with code samples available in javascript, node.js, curl, C#, python, ruby and php.
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