Connect Express: Authenticate against JIRA when request is initiated by 3rd party webhook

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Our add-on is connection information between JIRA and a 3rd party platform. I have created a web hook to inform the add-on when something changes on the 3rd party platorm (that is possibly linked to JIRA). In that case the add-on receives a push notification. Now I need to authenticate against JIRA without receiving a request from the JIRA cloud before.

So usually for an existing add-on installation the flow is:

  1. User interacts with JIRA cloud
  2. Add-on receives request from JIRA cloud
  3. connect expresss middleware authenticates request
  4. add-on can interact with JIRA Rest API via httpClient

Now I have following scenario:

  1. User interacts with 3rd party plaform
  2. 3rd party platform sends push to add-on
  3. Add-On needs to authenticate against JIRA cloud ( -> is that possible and how?)

Any help or bump to the right direction is appreciated!

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Since you’re using Atlassian Connect Express, then your app should already have all of the shared secrets etc so take a look at
Bitbucket - see " How to send a signed outbound HTTP request back to the host"

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