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Anonymous
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Power Query for files on https web site under basic authentication

Hi, 

I'm having problems getting pass the basic authentication when trying to connect to server https://xxxx.xxx.hr/~xxxxxx/xxxxxx/.  I'm trying to use power Query Web Content but when providing User and Password under Basic Authentication it doesn't work. I tested login, password in browser and they work fine. Does anyone has any experience with such task? Any help is more then welcome. *** One quick note: I can pull json file when I provide full link to json file using Get Web Content, and it doesn't ask me any permissions.

 

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Anonymous
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It got solved when I removed it and then re-added it as data source. After defining u/p and privacy it started working ok. I'll keep updated if errors happen. 

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V-lianl-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

See if it will help you.

https://chris.koester.io/index.php/2015/07/16/get-data-from-twitter-api-with-power-query/ 

Or you can try to clear credentials in datasource setting and access by anonymous.

 

Best Regards,
Liang
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Anonymous
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It got solved when I removed it and then re-added it as data source. After defining u/p and privacy it started working ok. I'll keep updated if errors happen. 

edhans
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Not sure what kind of files those are, but you cannot connect to XLSX, CSV, or other files stored on a web server like that. The web connect is for reading HTML web pages, not files out of a directory. You have to have a specific connector to read files out of directory, like the connectors provided for SharePoint libraries, Azure DataLake, etc.



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Anonymous
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HI, 

files are of .json type. What I want is to get list of files on server, and that is what I can't. Thanks for quick response.

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