Azure-docs: Data Factory: Web Activity Basic authentication dissapeared?!?

[RudyEvers]

Web Activity Authentication issue

Since today 2019-10-29, the authentication type Basic suddenly dissapeared from the control flow component Web Activity. As a result our ADF pipeline does not work anymore and we can not change the authentication of the API itself.

Is this a mistake or will this type of authentication dissapear forever? I haven't seen any updates about this and also the documentation still refers to the basic authentication type.

https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/azure/data-factory/control-flow-web-activity

Please come with a solution!

Best Regards

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• Content: Webactiviteit in Azure Data Factory
• Content Source: articles/data-factory/control-flow-web-activity.md
• Service: data-factory
• GitHub Login: @djpmsft
• Microsoft Alias: daperlov

[KranthiPakala-MSFT]

@RudyEvers Thank you for reaching out and bringing this to our notice. This looks strange, I was able to see all the options in authentication section including Basic.

Could you please try refreshing your browser (or clearing your browser cache) and let us know if you still notice the issue. The strange thing I noticed from the screenshot is that I can see "Username" and "Password" which are the elements/fields of Basic authentication.

If the issue still persists and If you have a support plan you may file a support ticket, else could you please send an email to [email protected] with the below details, so that we can create a one-time-free support ticket for you to work closely on this matter. 

Email subject: Data Factory: Web Activity Basic authentication dissapeared?
Thread URL: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/41664
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[RudyEvers]

Hi @KranthiPakala-MSFT

Thank you for the quick response. I tried a couple of things. Refresh of my browser, cleared the cache. Tried an other browser but that didn't resolve the issue. Really a strange situation.

I will send an email to the AzCommunity. Hopefully it can be sorted out.

Running the pipeline resolves in an error, while the basic authentication is set in the code. It doesn't recognize the authentication type anymore????

How strange is that:

Error:
Operation on target Get total pages failed: {"name":"UnauthorizedError","message":"Format is Authorization: Bearer [token]"}

Partial code:
"method": "GET",
"linkedServices": [
{
"referenceName": "LS_DSP_API_Opdrachten",
"type": "LinkedServiceReference"
}
],
"datasets": [],
"authentication": {
"type": "Basic",
"username": "powerbi",
"password": {
"type": "SecureString",
"value": "**"
}

Regards,
Ruud

[RudyEvers]

Hi @KranthiPakala-MSFT ,

Issue is caused when using GitHub with ADF. When I enable GitHub the issue occurs and when I don't I can see all authentication types. Not normal behavior I would think.

[KranthiPakala-MSFT]

@RudyEvers Thanks much for sharing your findings. I'm looking into this issue and will keep posted once I have an update.

[KranthiPakala-MSFT]

@RudyEvers Could you please confirm if you were able to see the Basic authentication option before 10/29/2019? And also were there any existing pipelines with Web Activity in Git Mode having Basic Auth setup and working before 10/29/2019 or is this the first time you are trying to use Basic Auth in Web Activity of your Data factory with Git mode enabled?

[KranthiPakala-MSFT]

@RudyEvers I have checked with internal team and received a confirmation that Basic and ClientCertificate authentication types are only available in Data factory "Live Mode" and not in "Git Mode". This is a know limitation.

Having said that , if the user selects Basic or ClientCertificate in Live Mode, then they cannot publish the pipeline to Git. The current available option is to use MSI auth type.
But there is already a work item on this requirement and ADF engineering team is working on it for fixing this to allow in both modes and user should be able to cross publish.

I do not have an ETA yet, but we can expect the fix to be out in the near future.

Apologizes for the inconvenience. If you have any suggestion/feedback regarding this, please feel free share it in ADF user voice forum: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/270578-azure-data-factory. All the feedback shared in this forum is actively monitored and reviewed by ADF engineering team.

Hope the above info helps. Please let us know if you have any further query.

[RudyEvers]

Hi @KranthiPakala-MSFT

Thank you for sorting things out. It is a pitty that basic authentication is not supported in Git mode. For now I changed my environment back to Live Mode and will use the ARM export to deploy it to my production environment. Hopefully it will be available in the near future.

Ps. I changed to Git mode on the 29th before that I was using Live mode. So it was the first time using Basic auth in Git mode.

After working with SSIS for years, I must say they are doing a really good job with ADF.

[KranthiPakala-MSFT]

@RudyEvers Thanks for sharing the feedback and sincere apologizes for the inconvenience. Hopefully this fix should be out soon.

Based on this update, I will go head and close this issue. If you have any further query, please feel free to reopen the issue and tag me in your reply. We will be glad to assist you.

Thank you.

[bamakus]

Hi

I'm facing same issue with SalesForce Commerce Cloud Connection(obtain access token) activity
Git seems to lose connection password
Do you know please , if issue is fixed now ?

Regards

Christophe

[djpmsft]

The fix is currently awaiting deployment. As we are currently holding off deployments due to the US holiday, you should see the all authentication modes supported in the Web Activity starting next week. Heads up, you will need to use Azure Key Vault to store your passwords as we do not store them in Git mode (which is why the feature didn't exist at first).