I was recently trying to copy some files from Azure using an SAS token. It was failing with the following error;
The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.
Server failed to authenticate the request. Make sure the value of Authorization header is formed correctly including the signature.
But, when run manually in the command line — it’d work.
Turns out it was purely because it was running with a batch file, the % signs (common in the SAS Signature) don’t play nice with batch files.
Solve? In the batch file, changing any % in the URL signature to %% escaped them, and let it run normally.
Hoping this saves someone else 1 hour or some sanity ;)
19 Responses
You definitely saved my hour. Thank you so much!
Same weird error, two hours wasted.. :( Now it’s work correctly… Thanks !!!
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Thanks for the assist – hours wasted here until I found this post.
Nice, you saved me of messing up!
Thanks so much! I was trying to automate a task and had a dozen hurdles to overcome. This was the last hurdle I couldn’t get over. Thank you so much for sharing!!!
Man, you are a legend!!!!
How did you ever solve this in the first place???
Ditto on Legend – this was driving me nuts until I found this – thank you!!!
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Thanks to you, lost 1-2 hours before your solution ^^
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Awesome! This was killing me, spent hours trying to figure this out!
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Savior. I wish I would have seen this about 3 hours ago but still saved me all the time to rewrite in ps1. You saved my weekend.
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