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Posted on by careyj

Hi there,

I am trying to build a flow to post a report to SharePoint that I receive daily via a link in an Outlook email. But the link itself is coded to automatically download the file when launched.

I managed to split out the URL and grab it, but when I used the HTTP get function, it returns an error saying the Object Moved. Any ideas? I was thinking I might have to write some kind of visual basic script to launch the URL, but I'm hoping someone knows an easier way to do it in Power Automate instead?

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Expiscornovus 33,189 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @careyj,

Are you getting a HTTP 302 back? If so, it is very likely that the download link is in the location header of the response.

Use a second HTTP action to navigate to that download link. Set the configure run after setting of the second action to has failed. In the URI use the following expression:

actions('HTTP').outputs.headers.Location

I have written about this approach (in my example it was a HTTP 301 btw) in one of my blogs:

https://www.expiscornovus.com/2021/01/08/how-to-workaround-a-http-301/

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careyj 23 on at

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Yes! It's a 302 error. Thank you so much for the direction. I will try it now and get back to you. I was worried it had something to do with authenticating and permissions via PowerAutomate instead of my local machine (w a cookie?) but let me try it first.

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Hi @Expiscornovus -

So I tried that and it failed again with another 302 error and then sent a redirect to the support page. I am wondering if I'm not choosing the right authentication protocol? I am trying to pull a file from a 3rd party for which I have credentials, but they are not admin credentials.

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Hi @careyj,

Can you share screenshots of the failed Http actions, specifically the outputs? This will help us troubleshoot. Obfuscate data if needed btw

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