Register-psrepository failed with "The property 'Name' cannot be found on this object" error

[jianyingt]

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Steps to reproduce

Recently, I got one issue from customer. We find the issue is caused by Ping-Endpoint (functions in PowershellGet module, PSModule.psm1 ) returns 403 or 405 randomly when execute Register-PSRepository.

1- In the environment, we will see in verbose message, there are several ping-endpoint results and for the last one, it returns 403.

2- At this point, if we check psrepositories.xml file (C:\Users<username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\PowerShell\PowerShellGet), we will see the "sourcelocation" is null.

3- For the following attempts to register a repository it will fail with the same error.

4- In my local lab, I forcely change the last ping-endpoint result to 403/405 in psmodule.psm1 and the same result would be reproduced that "sourcelocation" in psrepositories.xml is null but the error message is a little bit different.

5- To resolve this issue, currently, the only way seems to delete the psrepositories.xml

6- In the PowershellGet version 2.1.0, it is has already handled 200, 401 and 407. Will it be possible to add 403 and 405 also? Appreciate your inputs.

PowerShell Gallery | PSModule.psm1 2.1.0

Write-Debug -Message "Ping-Endpoint: location=$Location, statuscode=$statusCode, resolvedLocation=$resolvedLocation"

if((($statusCode -eq 200) -or ($statusCode -eq 401) -or ($statusCode -eq 407)) -and $resolvedLocation) { return $resolvedLocation }

Expected behavior

Register PS repository successfully

Actual behavior

Register PS repository with error and will fail with all following attempts to register PS repository

Error details

Cannot bind argument to parameter 'location' because it is an empty string.

The property 'Name' cannot be found on this object

Environment data

PS C:\windows\system32> $psversiontable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.14393.5127
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.14393.5127
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

Version

Powershell version 5.1, PowershellGet version 1.0.0.1

Visuals

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