Retool: XML responses from REST queries parsing as Base64Binary rather than XML
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- resolved
REST queries that were returning XML responses that were previously parsed as XML began being parsed as Base64Binary. We've now reverted the offending library upgrade that led to this issue and these types of XML APIs should work again normally now
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Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by Retool, started 2021-10-27 13:00 UTC, resolved after 0 min, 1 update(s).
- Title
- XML responses from REST queries parsing as Base64Binary rather than XML
- Vendor
- Retool
- Date
- URL
- https://rewindex.com/company/retool/incidents/4xjpbdsnrwds
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