Issues using HTTP Connection Manager to run SSRS reports from SSIS

Question

In my package, I have a HTTP Connection Manager called "ReportServer". And I have two variables called "ReportURL" and "ReportFile". "ReportURL" is the URL for the report. I won't get into the details of this
URL because I don't think this is the issue. "ReportFile" is the complete path and name of the output file I want to generate from "ReportURL".
With these things in place, I have a script component that that looks like this.
Public Sub Main()
'Connect to http conn mgr
Dim httpConn As ConnectionManager = Dts.Connections("ReportServer")
Dim clientConn As HttpClientConnection = New HttpClientConnection(httpConn.AcquireConnection(Nothing))
'file name with path
Dim ReportFile As String = Dts.Variables("ReportFile").Value.ToString
'report url
Dim ReportURL As String = Dts.Variables("ReportURL").Value.ToString
clientConn.ServerURL = ReportURL
'Download PDFReport
clientConn.DownloadFile(ReportFile, True)
Dts.TaskResult = ScriptResults.Success
End Sub
I don't know too much about the inner workings of the above script. It's from a template I copied from somewhere and it's been working fine.
But, today all of a sudden, it started a mysterious behavior. Let me see if I can describe it to see if this sounds familiar to anyone.
For some reason, a run of this package failed at time T1, running with a certain value of "ReportURL" and "ReportFile". Now everytime I try to fun the package with the same "ReportURL" and "ReportFile", it fails because
it tries to write out two files with the same name, "ReportFile", one from the current one and another from the failed one at time T1. It looks like somehow, the connection is still open from the failed one in time T1 and it won't go away.... does
this sound like anything? Can you understand the problem I am describing?

Answer 1

May it be that this post is NOT SSIS related?
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