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Powershell 6+ (in this case v7) - GetResponseStream #4

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$resp = $_.Exception.Response.GetResponseStream() this line causes a problem as GetResponseStream() seems to be deprecated since powershell v6+.

I ran into this error with the latest powershell v7.
A possible fix would be a wrapper like this one here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48154663/16052146

    if ($PSVersionTable.PSVersion.Major -lt 6) {
        if ($Error.Exception.Response) {  
            $Reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($Error.Exception.Response.GetResponseStream())
            $Reader.BaseStream.Position = 0
            $Reader.DiscardBufferedData()
            $ResponseBody = $Reader.ReadToEnd()
            if ($ResponseBody.StartsWith('{')) {
                $ResponseBody = $ResponseBody | ConvertFrom-Json
            }
            return $ResponseBody
        }
    }
    else {
        return $Error.ErrorDetails.Message
    }
}

try {
    $result = Invoke-WebRequest ...
}
catch {
    ParseErrorForResponseBody($_)
}

Tried it out but it then breaks

710 | $reader = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($resp)

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