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Improve the 404 friendly message #363

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Improve the 404 friendly message
HowardWolosky Jul 26, 2022
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Merge branch 'master' into 404ErrorMessage
HowardWolosky Dec 15, 2022
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9 changes: 7 additions & 2 deletions GitHubCore.ps1
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Expand Up @@ -550,8 +550,13 @@ function Invoke-GHRestMethod

if ($statusCode -eq 404)
{
$explanation = @('This typically happens when the current user isn''t properly authenticated.',
'You may need an Access Token with additional scopes checked.')
$explanation = @('This error will usually happen for one of the following reasons:',
'(1) The item you are requesting truly doesn''t exist (so make sure you don''t have',
'a typo) or ',
'(2) The item _does_ exist, but you don''t currently have permission to access it. ',
'If you think the item does exist and that you _should_ have access to it, then make',
'sure that you are properly authenticated with Set-GitHubAuthentication and that',
'your access token has the appropriate scopes checked.')
$output += ($explanation -join ' ')
}

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