[BUG] Response status code does not indicate success: 403 during Visual Studio 2022 17.10 startup

[MagicAndre1981]

Describe the bug

During Startup of VS2022 I get an error message from StartIsBack+ telling that something went wrong.

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1. start Visual Studio
2. See error

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• OS: [e.g. iOS] Windows 11 23H2
• VS2022 17.10

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[yannduran]

Hi André

SP+ is simply reporting an error that it received from a web request. The error itself had to have come from amazonaws.com

The only place in SP+ that I would ever expect to see such an error is when opening a Developer News item, which I know you don’t use.

Does the error keep happening? Or is it just a one-off? What are you doing just before you see the error?

Yann

[MagicAndre1981]

yes, it comes from the url https://vsstartpage.blob.core.windows.net/news/vs . Even when I turn Developer News off the extension still tries to read the URL.

Btw, can you please merge my PR #37 ?

[ruslan-mogilevskiy]

Same error here in vs2022 with disabled 'developer news'. The error appears 1-2 times once I open Start+ in VS for the first time.

[MagicAndre1981]

I use a different feed now to avoid this error