René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"404 instead of 405 for unsupported HTTP methods isn't documented","articleBody":"### Code of Conduct\n\n- [x] I have read and agree to the GitHub Docs project's [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/github/docs/blob/main/.github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)\n\n### What article on docs.github.com is affected?\n\nhttps://docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/troubleshooting-the-rest-api\n\n### What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?\n\nThe 404 section covers one cause of 404s (masking private-repo existence). It doesn't cover this one: an HTTP method a route doesn't support also returns 404, not 405.\n\nExample: DELETE on a read-only endpoint → 404, not the 405 you'd expect from RFC 7231.\n\nAdd a line so people don't debug a \"missing resource\" that's actually a wrong verb.\n\n### Additional information\n\nReliably reproducible. Verified with a black-box pytest suite: test_unsupported_method_is_masked_as_404 in https://github.com/jornith/octoprobe","author":{"url":"https://github.com/jornith","@type":"Person","name":"jornith"},"datePublished":"2026-07-16T12:58:00.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/45184/docs/issues/45184"}