GET a URL with a GitHub token, falling back to an unauthenticated request

Signs the request with httr::add_headers(Authorization = token) when a token is supplied, and retries without credentials if GitHub rejects them or returns a 404. token must carry the "token " prefix that getGitCredsToken() produces – a bare PAT authenticates nothing.

Usage

GETWauthThenNonAuth(url, token, verbose = getOption("Require.verbose"))

Arguments

url

The URL to GET.

token

A GitHub token of the form "token <pat>", or NULL for an unauthenticated request.

verbose

Numeric or logical, controlling messaging verbosity.

Value

The httr response object.

Details

Exported for the SpaDES packages, which query the GitHub API for module repositories and need the same authentication behaviour as Require. Not part of the advertised API.