topic Re: Passing Credentials in URL No Longer Working Sept 2021 Release in Report Server

Passing Credentials in URL No Longer Working Sept 2021 Release

Jarrod — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:19:22 GMT

Hi All,

When passing through credentials in the url of a power bi report (http://user:password@reportserver/report/reportA), the web page will just display a spinning circle in the middle of the page. When refreshing the page, it will then work. This worked without issue in previous version.

Any ideas?

Edit:September 2021 on-prem Report Server

Re: Passing Credentials in URL No Longer Working Sept 2021 Release

Jarrod — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 04:12:05 GMT

Any ideas?

Re: Passing Credentials in URL No Longer Working Sept 2021 Release

d_gosbell — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:15:08 GMT

You could try opening the browser dev tools and see if any error message is captured in the console. That might give a hint as to what the issue is. If that does not help resolve the issue you might need to raise an official support ticket with Microsoft. I don't think this technique of passing hard coded credentials through basic authentication is very widely used so maybe this is a new bug.

Re: Passing Credentials in URL No Longer Working Sept 2021 Release

Jarrod — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 06:22:23 GMT

Thanks David. Have raised an issue with Microsoft. Have since rolled back (painfully) to May 2021 and is working without issue.