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api.repos.create_fork not finding repo but curl command working

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, python
Domain
api

Research direction

Start with the call in scripts/e2e/main.py and trace it through ghapi/core.py and fastcore/net.py, comparing the generated request with the working curl request to the GitHub forks endpoint. Done means identifying why the two requests differ and documenting or correcting the behavior so the Python call succeeds for this repository.

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Description

I ran api.repos.create_fork(owner="WebGoat", repo="WebGoat"), and got an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/iulspop/Development/github-app/scripts/e2e/main.py", line 15, in <module>
    api.repos.create_fork(owner="WebGoat", repo="WebGoat")
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ghapi/core.py", line 61, in __call__
    return self.client(self.path, self.verb, headers=headers, route=route_p, query=query_p, data=data_p)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/ghapi/core.py", line 120, in __call__
    res,self.recv_hdrs = urlsend(path, verb, headers=headers or None, debug=debug, return_headers=True,
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fastcore/net.py", line 218, in urlsend
    return urlread(req, return_json=return_json, return_headers=return_headers)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fastcore/net.py", line 119, in urlread
    if 400 <= e.code < 500: raise ExceptionsHTTP[e.code](e.url, e.hdrs, e.fp, msg=e.msg) from None
fastcore.net.HTTP404NotFoundError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
====Error Body====
{
  "message": "Not Found",
  "documentation_url": "https://docs.github.com/rest/reference/repos#create-a-fork"
}

But when I run the curl command directly:

curl \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer X" \
  https://api.github.com/repos/WebGoat/WebGoat/forks

It just works.

Any ideas why the ghapi isn't working here?

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