Web.Contents with the Content option is supported only when connecting anonymously.

[Syndicate_Admin]

Hello

I'm trying to connect to a data source using a POST request. To do this, I am creating a blank query that follows the following scheme:
Let
url = "",
body = "{}",

header = [#"Content-Type"="application/json", #"Authoritation" = "Basic xxxxxxxx"],
result = Json.Document(Web.Contents(url,[Headers = header, Content=Text.ToBinary(body)]))

in
result

Currently, you are giving the following error: Web.Contents with the Content option is only supported when connecting anonymously. How could I make a POST request that had body and basic authentication?

Thank you.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Here is the sample code(use token to login and get access token for following operations) about use anonymous mode authorization to get data from web connector, you can take a look on it if helps:

let
    url = "api.xxxx.com",
    body = "{}",
    token = "xxxxxxxx",
    header = [
        #"Content-Type" = "application/json",
        #"Authoritation" = "Basic " & token
    ],
    response = Web.Contents(url, [
        RelativePath = "/xxxx/login",
        Headers = header,
        Content = Text.ToBinary(body)
    ]),
    AccessToken = Json.Document(response)[access_token],
    JsonResponse = Web.Contents(
        url,
        [
            RelativePath = "/xxx/xxx",
            Headers = [
                Authoraztion = "Basic " & AccessToken,
                #"Content-Type" = "application/json"
            ]
        ]
    ),
    Result = Json.Document(JsonResponse)
in
    Result

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[Little-Mike]

If you want to help, you should take care for correct spelling in your code sample: you write "Authoritation" and also "Authoraztion"...

[Syndicate_Admin · Accepted solution]

Hello

Finally, I got it to work with the code I was providing. It would be necessary to pass the authentication method in the Header of the request and at the moment in which Power BI asks for the credentials, choose the option of "Anonymous". In this way, it connects correctly.

Thank you.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Here is the sample code(use token to login and get access token for following operations) about use anonymous mode authorization to get data from web connector, you can take a look on it if helps:

let
    url = "api.xxxx.com",
    body = "{}",
    token = "xxxxxxxx",
    header = [
        #"Content-Type" = "application/json",
        #"Authoritation" = "Basic " & token
    ],
    response = Web.Contents(url, [
        RelativePath = "/xxxx/login",
        Headers = header,
        Content = Text.ToBinary(body)
    ]),
    AccessToken = Json.Document(response)[access_token],
    JsonResponse = Web.Contents(
        url,
        [
            RelativePath = "/xxx/xxx",
            Headers = [
                Authoraztion = "Basic " & AccessToken,
                #"Content-Type" = "application/json"
            ]
        ]
    ),
    Result = Json.Document(JsonResponse)
in
    Result

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng