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nzimmerman
Regular Visitor
5 years ago

Custom Authentication in Custom Data Connector

Trying to build a custom data connector for a website that uses an authentication flow that doesn't neatly fit in with the default options.   The authentication flow is like this:   1. send a GET...
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v-lionel-msft
Community Support
5 years ago

Hi nzimmerman ,

 

Maybe you can refer to this.

Authentication with a data source 

 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

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    nzimmerman
    Regular Visitor
    5 years ago

    Hi Lionel,

    unfortunately this doesn't do anything for me.

    I'm trying to build the custom data connector in Visual Studio, not access the data via an existing data connector.

    As I mentioned in my original post I can get access to the data already in Power BI/Excel, but to do so I have to use Anonymous authentication and hard code in the username and password. This is neither portable, nor safe when extending to other users.

    What I need to be able to do is capture the username and password entered for the Basic authentication credentials and then pass them through a custom authentication procedure in the connector I am building.

    While I have seen a number of ways of doing this via OAuth authentication, that is not an option in my case.