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Can't Refresh without Gateway with Web API Source (new issue)
- 5 years ago
Hi all, I received word from Microsoft (Power BI) Support with more information. I thought it was valuable to share it with you::
We have got an update from our Product Engineering team:
As we see that the User is using https and http urls to build the report. We checked with our SME they confirmed that, Power BI Service requires https urls for Web data sources to refresh. For non-secured urls (http), it's required to go through the gateway. By design.
So an anonymous API feed using "http" will not allow for a scheduled refresh in the online Power BI service without a gateway. It needs to be an https one.
Krgds,
Bart
It would appear that your data source has to be used with a gateway based on your findings above.
Hi, ok. Is there any way to find out why this is? Still wondering what makes this Web API different from my other ones and if there's any way to make it work. Anyone?