Error "The input url <url> is not in the whitelist, please add it to the whitelist first" Adding a URL to the Secondary Whitelist for a Web Data Connector

Issue

When trying to add a URL to the secondary whitelist for a Web Data Connector using tabadmin whitelist_webdataconnector -s, the following error occurs:

Error: The input url [url] is not in the whitelist, please add it to the whitelist first

Environment

Tableau Server
Web Data Connector

Resolution

Ensure that the first argument for the whitelist command is the URL of the Web Data Connector to which you would like to add a secondary whitelist.

For example, to add https://myFirstAPI.com/getData to the secondary whitelist for the connector https://example.com/myconnector.html

Incorrect syntax: tabadmin whitelist_webdataconnector -s https://myFirstAPI.com/getData
Correct Syntax: tabadmin whitelist_webdataconnector -s https://example.com/myconnector.html https://myFirstAPI.com/getData

Cause

The add_secondary_whitelist option for the tabadmin command whitelist_webdataconnector requires two arguments: the URL of the Web Data Connector and the secondary whitelist as a comma separated list of URLS.

Additional Information

You can include regular expressions in the list of domains. If you do not specify a secondary safe list for a connector, then that connector cannot connect to any domains.