Should we remove the dependency to IE?

[vbakke]

We suddenly got this message:

We found a solution on StackOverflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38005341/the-response-content-cannot-be-parsed-because-the-internet-explorer-engine-is-no

Our solution was to start IE. 😆

But it might be better to user the -UseBasicParsing on Invoke-WebRequest in core.ps1
Just as a suggestion. :)

[ahaydon]

I'm not able to reproduce this issue. I built a new server and ran Import-QlikApp and it completed successfully, I then opened IE and the setup prompt appeared.

Can you provide some details of the OS and PowerShell version please?

Does it just fail on file transfers or do other API calls result in the same error? Non file transfers use the Invoke-RestMethod command.

[vbakke]

Hmm.. I've never had this problem before either. But I have normally open IE before I start Qlik-CLI, so I can't be sure how frequent this is. (Need IE to download Chrome, you know. : )

This server is (from 'systeminfo'):
OS Name: Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Datacenter
OS Version: 10.0.17763 N/A Build 17763

$PSVersionTable:
PSVersion 5.1.17763.1490
PSEdition Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 10.0.17763.1490
CLRVersion 4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

Now that we have opened IE it all works, so we struggle reproducing it as well. 🙄

[ahaydon]

I can reproduce on PS4 but not on PS5.1, only a slight difference in version 5.1.17763.1007.

It's weird but at least I can reproduce and test a fix.