Connecting to Snowflake from R Workbench using Okta

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Hi, I am trying to connect to snowflake from R Workbench. This is the error received.

con <- dbConnect(jdbcDriver, "jdbc:snowflake://company.snowflakecomputing.com/?authenticator=https://company.okta.com/",

  •              'pnarayana1@company.com', 'pass')

Sep 16, 2021 10:07:42 PM net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil handleFederatedFlowError
SEVERE: IOException when authenticating with https://company.okta.com/home/snowflake/0oa1ik4wwzcT8b5KY0h8/54889
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: /login/cert
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:611)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:508)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:457)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.isPrefixEqual(SessionUtil.java:1218)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.federatedFlowStep4(SessionUtil.java:999)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.getSamlResponseUsingOkta(SessionUtil.java:1206)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.newSession(SessionUtil.java:378)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.openSession(SessionUtil.java:284)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SFSession.open(SFSession.java:446)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.DefaultSFConnectionHandler.initialize(DefaultSFConnectionHandler.java:104)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.DefaultSFConnectionHandler.initializeConnection(DefaultSFConnectionHandler.java:79)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeConnectionV1.initConnectionWithImpl(SnowflakeConnectionV1.java:116)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeConnectionV1.(SnowflakeConnectionV1.java:96)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeDriver.connect(SnowflakeDriver.java:164)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:664)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:247)

Sep 16, 2021 10:07:43 PM net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil handleFederatedFlowError
SEVERE: IOException when authenticating with https://company.okta.com/home/snowflake/0oa1ik4wwzcT8b5KY0h8/54889
java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol: /login/cert
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:611)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:508)
at java.net.URL.(URL.java:457)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.isPrefixEqual(SessionUtil.java:1218)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.federatedFlowStep4(SessionUtil.java:999)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.getSamlResponseUsingOkta(SessionUtil.java:1206)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.newSession(SessionUtil.java:378)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SessionUtil.openSession(SessionUtil.java:284)
at net.snowflake.client.core.SFSession.open(SFSession.java:446)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.DefaultSFConnectionHandler.initialize(DefaultSFConnectionHandler.java:104)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.DefaultSFConnectionHandler.initializeConnection(DefaultSFConnectionHandler.java:79)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeConnectionV1.initConnectionWithImpl(SnowflakeConnectionV1.java:116)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeConnectionV1.(SnowflakeConnectionV1.java:96)
at net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeDriver.connect(SnowflakeDriver.java:164)

Error in .jcall(drv@jdrv, "Ljava/sql/Connection;", "connect", as.character(url)[1], :
net.snowflake.client.jdbc.SnowflakeSQLException: JDBC driver encountered communication error. Message: Exception encountered when opening connection: no protocol: /login/cert.

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