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Anonymous
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Power BI Report Server REST API does not return JSON

Hi all,

 

Microsoft Power BI Report Server Version 15.0.1112.48
 

I don't know why Report Server API now does not return JSON response. Instead, all of the get API (have not tried POST/DELETE) returns the content of the homepage under HTML content.

For example:
GET http://host/reports/api/v2.0/CatalogItems?%24filter=Name return html content

When I try to connect to Report Server using Desktop (in the same machine installed the Report Server), it says "We couldn't find PowerBI Report Server at this address"

I check the log under PBIRS/LogFiles but could not find anything too obvious. Is there any way to know what's going on?

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d_gosbell
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The REST API is working fine for me 

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Has someone possibly incorrectly configured the portal and webservice urls? The default is that /Reports is your portal URL and this is the same endpoint that runs the REST API. The webservice API is usually at /ReportService and this API is XML / Webservice based and will return HTML for an invalid request.

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