Connecting from Tableau Desktop to Snowflake Using PAC File to Manage Proxy Access Fails

Problemas

When connecting Tableau Desktop to Snowflake using OAuth authentication, the following error occurs:

An error occurred while communicating with Snowflake
Invalid username or password.
Error Code: 2438FAD7
[Snowflake][Snowflake] (4)
REST request for URL <URL> failed: CURLerror (curl_easy_perform() failed) - code=7 msg='Couldn't connect to server' osCode=10061 osMsg='Unknown error'.

Ambiente

Tableau Desktop
Windows
Snowflake
OAuth authentication

Resolução

To resolve the issue, follow these steps:

Click the Windows Start button and type in: env
From the search results, select 'Edit the system environment variables'.
In the System Properties dialog, click 'Environment Variables'.
In the Environment Variables dialog, under User variables, configure the following as required (If more than one value is specified, values should be separated by commas):
- http_proxy
- https_proxy
- no_proxy
Click OK to close the dialogs.