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dpasha
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Power BI Desktop connecting to secure WebAPI

I have an issue while connecting Power BI Desktop to Web API below are the details for the issue

  • The data access in Power BI is through a web API using the Web data source of Power BI
  • We are using custom headers (like x-key & x-access-token) for Authorization in HTTP (request header parameters in below Screenshot(1)) and were able to access the data when the connection was http,
  • But once the backend application URL was changed from http to https connection we are not able to access the data and are getting the error “Error: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel” as shown in screenshot(2).
  • Note i was able to test the API for the application using Postman and it was working fine.

 

Screenshot 1Screenshot 1

 Screenshot 2Screenshot 2

 

Kindly let us know if there is a way access the data using HTTPS and custom headers or is there a workaround for this issue in Power BI

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @dpasha,

 

Please check the advice mentioned in below links to see whether they are helpful to your problem:

SSL Certificate Issue - can I ignore it?

"Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS" error

 

Besides, to connect to a secure Web API in Power BI, please see this blog.

 

Best regards,
Yuliana Gu

 

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Hi Yuliana Gu,

 

I tried your suggestions but it still giving the same error. Do you have any another suggestions.

 

Thanks in Advance

 

Regards,

Danish Pasha

 

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