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Clarify curl example for OAuth Check a Token #2536

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/apps/oauth-applications?apiVersion=2022-11-28#check-a-token

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

The article says:

You must use Basic Authentication to use this endpoint, where the username is the application client_id and the password is its client_secret

However, the curl example does not do this:

curl -L \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR-TOKEN>"\
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/applications/Iv1.8a61f9b3a7aba766/token \
  -d '{"access_token":"e72e16c7e42f292c6912e7710c838347ae178b4a"}'

I found this confusing, and eventually figured out that I need to follow the advice here and modify the curl example accordingly.

It would be good to have the example code match the text.

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