When you use the REST transformation in SAS Data Integration Studio, a web service might return an error (for example, “612 - Invalid Content Type”) even after you properly define the following REST properties on the Options tab for the transformation:

• HTTP content-type
• HTTP charset

This issue occurs because the Content-Type entry in the header is not properly created from the two options above. For example, you select application/json as the "HTTP content-type" and utf-8 as the "HTTP charset." These selections result in the following Content-Type entry "ct" for the generated HTTP procedure call:

A RESTful service that properly parses that Content-Type entry in the header would expect a semicolon between these two values like this:

Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.

The hot fix is a Base SAS^® hot fix that consists of an SPK file that must be imported to the metadata server to replace the existing transformation. Follow the installation instructions that are provided with the hot fix.

Operating System and Release Information

A fix for this issue for Base SAS 9.4_M6 is available at:

A fix for this issue for Data Integration Studio 4.904 is available at: