From 1625b71271f6f0b5d7fb40f2219e3ec5a8744d31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jehrr <79864894+jehrr@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:53:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Show the Browser API's error body instead of a bare HTTP
 status

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CKsd7q25N19WzUZjrAdzx8
---
 CHANGELOG.md                    |  5 +++++
 tools/browser_profile_client.py | 10 +++++++++-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ad50647..ca00f04 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ entry in a blockquote.
 
 ### Fixed
 
+* **`tools/browser_profile_client.py` hid the Browser API's error code.** An
+  HTTP error from the API was reported as the bare status ("404 Client Error:
+  Not Found"), dropping the body that names the cause, e.g.
+  `ERROR_ACCOUNT_NOT_FOUND` for a profile id passed as `--account-id`. The
+  body is now printed with credentials masked.
 * **Session minting on a gateway URL with no login.** `connection
   --mint-session` spliced the new login in front of `http://` when
   `AVITO_PROXY` had an empty username, so the rebuilt URL had no host and the
diff --git a/tools/browser_profile_client.py b/tools/browser_profile_client.py
index 7290b25..870b19f 100644
--- a/tools/browser_profile_client.py
+++ b/tools/browser_profile_client.py
@@ -161,11 +161,19 @@ def _call(method: str, path: str, key: str, *, params=None, body=None):
     url = f"{BASE}{path}"
     try:
         r = requests.request(method, url, params=params, json=body, timeout=TIMEOUT)
-        r.raise_for_status()
     except requests.RequestException as e:
         # The key rides in the query string on GET, and `requests` puts the
         # whole URL into this message. Redact before it reaches a log.
         sys.exit(f"!! {method} {path} failed: {redact(e, key)}")
+    if not r.ok:
+        # The API names the cause in the body (ERROR_ACCOUNT_NOT_FOUND,
+        # ERROR_CUSTOM_PROXY_AUTH, ...); a bare "404 Not Found" hid it.
+        try:
+            detail = json.dumps(safe(r.json()))
+        except ValueError:
+            detail = "(non-JSON body, %d bytes)" % len(r.content)
+        sys.exit(f"!! {method} {path} failed: HTTP {r.status_code}: "
+                 f"{redact(detail, key)}")
     try:
         data = r.json()
     except ValueError: