On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Bill Mercer <bmercer_at_nccer.org> wrote:

> > Does anyone have experience using curl to download a report from
> > a Microsoft SSRS server? I’m trying to automate the retrieval of some
> > reports, and am having trouble building a URL that works with curl.
> >
> >
> > I think you should be able to copy the URL that was used to generated the
> > report in the browser and then use that with curl. What happens when you
> > do that?
>
> Mostly I'm getting 401 unauthorized errors. Identical URL and identical
> credentials, but different results depending on whether I'm using a browser
> or curl, so I'm thinking it's something about the SSRS authentication that
> is tripping me up.
>

Are you setting the User-Agent string in the curl call? I've had some
servers refuse to talk back if they didn't get even a basic browser-style
agent:

     curl -A "Mozilla/4.0" <other curl opts> https://.......

Ralph Mitchell

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Received on 2017-01-15