Connecting an 3rd party HTTP API

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Hello,

Can you advise me how to connect to an HTTP API on our D365 env? Upgrading the server to HTTPS is not possible unfortunately.

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Hi,

You should be able to do this in Power Automate, that's what we are doing.

Overview of HTTP connectors in Power Automate - Training | Microsoft Learn

Edit: If you are using cloud, that is (-:

Otherwise, if on-premise, I'd write a plugin in C#. My knowledge is somewhat limited on on-prem CRM, so I'm not sure if there is a smarter way of doing it.

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It's on cloud and we also need to use VPN. The server has whitelisted our crm address so we can make a request but CORS is blocking our way. I'm guessing Power Automate will try to connect from various addresses not our crm address and that's another roadblock.

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Yes, exactly. That's the problem of using Power Automate or any Dynamics SaaS solution.

From my experience you have a couple of options here using the Microsoft stack, but they all need some work in Azure:

Use the Power Platform VNET support, and use that to VPN into your own network.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/vnet-support-overview
Here you can build a Custom Connector or a Dataverse plugin.

Create an API using API Management, and use it as an in-between API. You can even have it generate a custom connector for you.
There is a small cost associated with this, but I know this works.

There are of course more options, but for me to give recommendations I need to look at the overall picture of your integration.

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If we can somehow drop the VPN requirement is there any other solution besides Power Automate?

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If I were to architect the solution, I would write a Dataverse plugin in C# to call the API.

However, I might be biased since I’m a pro-developer by trade.

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