Excel 2016 Connecting to oData Feed Received (406) Not Acceptable Response - excel

I'm working with Power Query in Excel 2016 and when trying to setup an oData Feed (Data Tab > New Query > From Other Sources > From OData Feed) I get a message back saying (406) Not Acceptable. Normally on the OData Feed, I put in the URL (Basic is selected by default) and it opens up an authentication window (to put in username and password).
I have two excel workbooks now with one being created about four weeks ago, using the same process and it works as expected; one can even select refresh data and it makes the connection and refreshes the data.
The second excel workbook is a new, created from scratch (as I wanted to go through a bit of a different path with the Power Query editor), but I cannot get past the OData feed creation.
It seems odd that the same URL that was setup before is not working in a new spreadsheet.

It looks like it was purely an issue with selecting oData as the feed. I'm connecting to JIRA rest web services and should have selected (Data Tab > New Query > From Other Sources > From Web) (the From Web over From OData Feed made all the difference)

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4). I choose Basic option and enter URL and click OK
5). I get the following screen
6). I Choose the second option that is Table. As per my experience data desired by us is contained in Tables.
7). I click Load button to get the data, which loads on web page correctly.
HTH
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has been shown entered into its constituent parts in the snapshot shown below. Further details to set a dynamic URL connection can be referred in linked document.
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