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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Can't Refresh without Gateway with Web API Source

I'm working on analyzing some Jira data for my company. Since we use Jira On Premise, the Jira Power BI app doesn't work, and instead I'm using the REST API. My query works within Power BI Desktop, a...
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    Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Thanks for the response! Actually, I am not using a Gateway at all. I wanted to just be able to use the web source from the web. However, I figured out that the actual problem stemmed from the fact that the web API was on-premise too and not on the open internet, which is why a Gateway is required.

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ExcelNorge
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3 years ago

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.