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Syntax error when pasting PA Cloud generated webhook

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Good day everyone,
I'm getting a syntax error message when pasting a webhook url (Generated through Power Automate Cloud -

"When a HTTP request is received" action/node) to either a variable or "Invoke Web Service" URL field in PAD. The error accrues as soon as I close either of those windows. I have tried generating different webhook address in the cloud version - getting the same error. I have tried using postman with the same URL and it worked just fine! Hopefully this confirms that there's nothing wrong with the url itself. Any idea what's causing this?
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Deenuji_Loganathan_ 6,255 Moderator on at

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@Aleksandras
In PAD, when URL include the "%" symbol, PAD interprets them as its own variables.

I believe your URL also contains % symbol, and PAD identifies these "%" symbols and attempts to interpret them as variables, resulting in a syntax error.

To mitigate this issue, I suggest decoding your URL before PAD processes it.
or also try escaping the % with another % like so: https://xxxx.xxxxx.en/#xxxx%%xxxxxt%%xx/xxxx/

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Deenuji Loganathan
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Aleksandras 6 on at

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@Deenuji , legend!
It worked, and it totally makes sense.
Thank you

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