XSRF Protection Disables Basic URL Rest Authorization

According to this REST page: https://developer.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOODEV/Using+the+Bamboo+REST+APIs You should be able to login to REST via a URL request by using the following scheme: "http://host:8085/rest/api/latest/plan?osauthType=basic&osusername=&ospassword=" This worked fine for us...