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Reubenjac
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8 years ago
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  I noticed that on a computer that had the latest version of power BI installed, the link http://www.imdb.com/chart/top would not open.   I receive an error that states :   We have encountered ...
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ImkeF
Community Champion
8 years ago

Hi Sean,

just recognized that I was using an old version. I'm now getting the same error as you, so it's pretty likely that this is a bug unfortunately.

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Sean
Community Champion
8 years ago

ImkeF- Thank You for confirming! Yes I've not been able to refresh in both March 2018 Versions they've released so far!

2.56.5023.861 - March 7 and

2.56.5023.942 - March 12

Both don't work and say URL is Invalid!

 

MFelix- Thank you for the link!

Indeed I can confirm now that after downgrading to the Feb 2018 version I was able to Refresh the Data

(the link was to the PBI version that had the "&" Issue so I had to move the file to a temp folder and then open and refresh)

However the data refresh happens with no problem in the Feb 2018!

Then I updated again to the latest and Issue is again there but at least I got the newest data in the PBIX I needed!

 

Hope they fix this soon! :smileyhappy:

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    amvanandel
    Regular Visitor
    8 years ago

    I experience the same problem on all my computers with the latest PowerBI installed. Untill two weeks ago I had no problems loading two separate web links, now I get the "The supplied URL must be a valid 'http:' or 'https:' URL." error. 

     

    Hope this gets fixed soon. 

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      ImkeF
      Community Champion
      8 years ago

      BTW: This seems to be a problem of the Web.Page-function, as the Lines.FromBinary(Web.Contents.. -version works fine.