Download Tool - Questions on Headers

Hi,

I am having issues getting data from a URL with the download tool. The url I am trying to pull from encodes the data with gzip if this is requested in the header and should default to utf-8 if nothing is specified.

However, I only specify the content-type in the header and its still return the Download data as gzip not utf-8.

The questions i have are:

1) How does alteryx handle request headers? is it very similar to curl? also am inputting in the headers correctly (do i need speech marks)?

Name	Value
content-type	application/json

2)The Download header from the download tool, is that the response header from the url?

3) has anyone else encountered an issue similiar to this?

Thanks,

Ikenna

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Ikennao

Turns out Alteryx was picking up the unicode byte order mark but not showing it.

Hence the json parse did not identify the json format

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BenMoss

Hi!

Is it possible to share the details about the API you are specifically trying to access?

Ben

Ikennao

Unfortunately not

Ikennao

The issue seems to be as a result of the Alteryx Download tool not working well with streaming APIs as the content length is not known and the transfer-encoding is set to chunked

Has anyone managed to get the alteryx download tool to work for a streaming api that returns a JSON? Does that json get recognised by the JSON parse?

Does Alteryx support transfer encoding chunked?

Thanks,

Ikenna

Ikennao

Turns out Alteryx was picking up the unicode byte order mark but not showing it.

Hence the json parse did not identify the json format

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