Querying the JIRA api with Meteor

For anyone trying to figure out how to connect to the JIRA api with Meteor JS: I was using the POST call with my JIRA credentials (as the POST data) and url=https://company.atlassian.net/rest/auth/latest/session to get the session cookie that I could use for authentication in the later API calls.
The login call above returns an array cookies (with session name and values, atlassian.xsrf.token, studio.crowd.tokenkey):

• "atlassian.xsrf.token=BZD0-ZZ0R-LNEL-XXXX|fb1e90160161c98de5d2b5086xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|lout; Path=/"
• "JSESSIONID=0BB474286C3F6356013XXXXXXXXX; Path=/; HttpOnly"
• "studio.crowd.tokenkey=""; Domain=.company.atlassian.net; Expires=Thu, 01-Jan-1970 00:00:10 GMT; Path=/; HttpOnly"
• "studio.crowd.tokenkey=jJv5rU3Fs60A8VaIgXXXXXX; Domain=.projectricochet.atlassian.net; Path=/; HttpOnly"

Passing just the session cookie to the API calls doesn’t work. You get error message “login required”. You get the same result when passing all 4 of them.

It turns out that the cookie #3 is the one causing the problem. To get the API calls working I parse through the returned cookie array and delete the one with expiration date in it and then I pass the entire array of cookies.
Example code:

var auth_url="https://company.atlassian.net/rest/auth/latest/session";

var result = Meteor.http.call("POST", auth_url, {
data: {
              'username': ‘admin’,
              'password': ‘admin’,
           },
           headers: {
                 "content-type": "application/json",
                 "Accept": "application/json"
           },
 });

var cookie_value = result['headers']['set-cookie'];

for(var c in cookie_value) {
       if(cookie_value[c].indexOf("Expires") !== -1) {
             cookie_value[c] = "";
       }
 }

if (result.statusCode == 200) {
       var auth_url="https://company.atlassian.net/rest/api/latest/issue/ISSUE#";
       result = Meteor.http.call("GET", auth_url, {
         params: {
               timeout: 30000
         },
         headers: {
               "cookie": cookie_value,
               "content-type": "application/json",
               "Accept": "application/json"
         },
       });

       var issue = JSON.parse(result.content);
       console.log(issue);
}

Note: Thanks to Dan Dascalescu from The Quantified Self Forum for catching an input filter issue resulting in a javascript error in the code above!