web activity URL length limit? this is frustrating

[frosty-fabric]

I spent several hours on this and this is so frustrating! 

i need to call an API and i first tried in ADF and it all worked and I pretty much copy and paste into Fabric data factory and it doesn't work - upon futher inpection, it seems like the full URL I put into connection is chopped off after certain # of characters, so when I ran it , i got resource not found on server, i tried to use relative URL and it didn't work either,  anybody had same experience and how do you fix it? Again it works perfectly fine in ADF - azure data factory

[v-cboorla-msft]

Hi @frosty-fabric 

Glad that your query got resolved.

Please continue using Fabric Community for any help regarding your queries.

[v-cboorla-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @frosty-fabric 

Thanks for using Microsoft Fabric Community.

Apologies for the issue that you are facing here.

Though Fabric's Web Activity doesn't explicitly restrict URL length, potential problems can occur with very long or special character-filled URLs. To address this, consider encoding the URL or using a URL shortening service. This can be particularly helpful for URLs exceeding browser limitations or containing characters that might be misinterpreted.

Alternatively, you can also use the WebHook activity to call an API that supports callback functionality.

A webhook activity can control the execution of pipelines through custom code. With the webhook activity, code can call an endpoint and pass it a callback URL. The pipeline run waits for the callback invocation before it proceeds to the next activity.

Please refer to this document for more details.

I hope this information helps. Please do let us know if you have any further questions.

Thanks.

[v-cboorla-msft]

Hi @frosty-fabric 

We haven’t heard from you on the last response and was just checking back to see if you have a resolution yet.
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Otherwise, will respond back with the more details and we will try to help.

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[v-cboorla-msft]

Hi @frosty-fabric 

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