Cannot connect to Discord backend

[Andrew Johnson]

Expected Behavior

Expect to connect to Discord without error

Current Behavior

Running Start-PoshBot will lead to the following 403 Forbidden errors and warnings when running the "Log into Discord with the bot token" section:

Write-Error:
Line |
16 | $bot | Start-PoshBot -Verbose
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| {"DataTime":"2023-08-25 03:36:15Z","Class":"DiscordConnection","Method":"ConnectGateway","Severity":"Error","LogLevel":"Info","Message":"Unable to determine Discord gateway URL","Data":{"CommandName":"Invoke-RestMethod","Message":"Response status code does not indicate success: 403 (Forbidden).","TargetObject":{"Version":{"Major":1,"Minor":1,"Build":-1,"Revision":-1,"MajorRevision":-1,"MinorRevision":-1},"VersionPolicy":0,"Content":null,"Method":{"Method":"GET"},"RequestUri":"https://discordapp.com/api/gateway/bot","Headers":[{"Key":"Authorization","Value":["Bot BOTTOKENREDACTED"]},{"Key":"User-Agent","Value":["Mozilla/5.0","(Windows NT 10.0; Microsoft Windows 10.0.22621; en-US)","PowerShell/7.3.6"]}],"Properties":[],"Options":[]},"Position":"At C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\PoshBot\0.13.0\PoshBot.psm1:7439 char:33\r\n+ … tewayInfo = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri 'https://discordapp.com/api/gatewa …\r\n+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~","CategoryInfo":"InvalidOperation: (Method: GET, Reques…PowerShell/7.3.6\r\n}:HttpRequestMessage) [Invoke-RestMethod], HttpResponseException","FullyQualifiedErrorId":"WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand"}}

WARNING: {"DataTime":"2023-08-25 03:36:16Z","Class":"DiscordConnection","Method":"ReadReceiveJob","Severity":"Warning","LogLevel":"Info","Message":"Receive job state is [Failed]. Attempting to reconnect...","Data":null}

Possible Solution

Unsure. I am still troubleshooting.

Steps to Reproduce (for bugs)

Run the following:

Import-Module PoshBot
$pbc = New-PoshBotConfiguration
$pbc.BotAdmins = @('username')

$backendConfig = @{
Name = 'JohnsonBot'
Token = 'TOKEN'
ClientId = 'CLIENTID'
GuildId = 'GUILDID'
}

$backend = New-PoshBotDiscordBackend -Configuration $backendConfig

$bot = New-PoshBotInstance -Configuration $pbc -Backend $backend
$bot | Start-PoshBot -Verbose

Context

Moving PoshBot to a new computer and I'm running into this error. I've double-checked the ClientId and GuildId, as well as regenerated the token a number of times to make sure they were correct. Originally I had copied my configuration over from the old computer but after I experienced errors I tried starting from scratch. I'm a bit out of my element with this troubleshooting so I wanted to file an issue while I dug into it in case anyone is seeing a similar issue.

Your Environment

• Module version used: PoshBot 0.13.0
• Operating System and PowerShell version: Windows 11 22H2. Tested with PowerShell 7.3.6 and WindowsPowerShell 5.1.22621.1778

[Andrew Johnson]

Just discovered this was solved with #240 ! I was able to apply the changes locally and my bot fired up right away.

@devblackops do you plan on updating the release version on PSGallery?