Invoke-RestMethod – how to pass “ETag does not represent the latest state of the resource.”

Question 1

Question

How to pass the exception having the following message?

Invoke-RestMethod : {“Message”:”ETag does not represent the latest state of the resource.”}

Seeing the reference, I think “passing If-Match: "*" header” should be a key, but don’t know how to do this.

Note: when updating or deleting a file, ETag behavior will apply. You can pass a If-Match: “*” header to disable the ETag check.

To do

Putting the file “sample1.html” to specific directory of the website
In a Runbook of Azure Automation account

Code

# Kudu auth information creation
$WebSiteName = Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'WebApps_name'
# Example: "WebApps04"
$username = Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'WebApps_deploy_username'
$password = Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'WebApps_deploy_password'
# Above are set by "Asset - Variable" of in Azure Automation account

$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username,$password)))
$userAgent = "powershell/1.0"

# Add-content dummy HTML file
$Filename = "sample1.html"
$a = "<HTML><BODY>Sample HTML Data " + $WebSiteName + "</BODY></HTML>"
$a | add-content $Filename

# Get-Content full path of HTML file
$b = get-content $Filename
$filepath = ($b).PSPath

# PUT HTML file $filepath as $Filename, by Kudu REST API
$apiUrl = "https://" + $WebSiteName + ".scm.azurewebsites.net/api/vfs/site/wwwroot/" + $Filename
Write-Output "putting ..."

Invoke-RestMethod `
    -Uri $apiUrl `
    -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} `
    -UserAgent $userAgent `
    -Method PUT `
    -InFile $filePath `
    -ContentType "text/html"

Write-Output "This run is finished."

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# Kudu auth information creation

$WebSiteName = Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'WebApps_name'

# Example: "WebApps04"

$username = Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'WebApps_deploy_username'

$password = Get-AutomationVariable -Name 'WebApps_deploy_password'

# Above are set by "Asset - Variable" of in Azure Automation account

$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username,$password)))

$userAgent = "powershell/1.0"

# Add-content dummy HTML file

$Filename = "sample1.html"

$a = "Sample HTML Data " + $WebSiteName + ""

$a | add-content $Filename

# Get-Content full path of HTML file

$b = get-content $Filename

$filepath = ($b).PSPath

# PUT HTML file $filepath as $Filename, by Kudu REST API

$apiUrl = "https://" + $WebSiteName + ".scm.azurewebsites.net/api/vfs/site/wwwroot/" + $Filename

Write-Output "putting ..."

Invoke-RestMethod `

-Uri $apiUrl `

-Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} `

-UserAgent $userAgent `

-Method PUT `

-InFile $filePath `

-ContentType "text/html"

Write-Output "This run is finished."

Output

putting ...

Invoke-RestMethod : {"Message":"ETag does not represent the latest state of the resource."}
At line:30 char:1
+ Invoke-RestMethod `
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod], 
WebException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand

This run is finished.

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putting ...

Invoke-RestMethod : {"Message":"ETag does not represent the latest state of the resource."}

At line:30 char:1

+ Invoke-RestMethod `

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod],

WebException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand

This run is finished.

Question 2

As hinted in the comments, the -Headers parameter accept a hashtable with multiple keys, like so:

$Headers = @{
    'Authorization' = ('Basic {0}' -f $base64AuthInfo)
    'If-Match'      = '*'
}

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$Headers = @{

'Authorization' = ('Basic {0}' -f $base64AuthInfo)

'If-Match' = '*'

}

and then:

Invoke-RestMethod -Headers $Headers

1 2	Invoke-RestMethod -Headers $Headers