topic Re: Qlik Rest connector with GitHub api in QlikView

Qlik Rest connector with GitHub api

rwunderlich — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:48:35 GMT

Has anyone tried the Qlik REST connector against the github api? The URL I am using is:

https://api.github.com/repos/robwunderlich/qlikview-components/releases

In the Connect dialog, when I press "Test Connection" I get "Connection to server failed".

I'm using uid/password and have tried with Force Basic Auth on and off.

Anyone else have experience getting this to work? I'm using QV12 SR5.

-Rob

Re: Qlik Rest connector with GitHub api

rwunderlich — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 04:10:21 GMT

I managed to solve my own problem.

1. I had some VPN/Proxy software installed that was interfering with the connection. I uninstalled that. On to #2.

2. With Fiddler, I determined that the next problem was a "403 Forbidden" response due to no User-Agent header. (http://developer.github.com/v3/#user-agent-required). I've used Fiddler to fake in a User-Agent header and can now connect.

I'm not sure what the long term solution will be but I'll close this thread.

-Rob