How to make an authenticated web request in Powershell?

Question

In C#, I might do something like this:

System.Net.WebClient w = new System.Net.WebClient(); w.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, auth, domain); string webpage = w.DownloadString(url); 

Is there a Powershell version of this, or should I just call through to the CLR?

Answer 1

The PowerShell is almost exactly the same.

$webclient = new-object System.Net.WebClient $webclient.Credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($username, $password, $domain) $webpage = $webclient.DownloadString($url) 

Answer 2

For those that need Powershell to return additional information like the Http StatusCode, here's an example. Included are the two most likely ways to pass in credentials.

Its a slightly modified version of this SO answer:
How to obtain numeric HTTP status codes in PowerShell

$req = [system.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url) # method 1 $req.UseDefaultCredentials = $true # method 2 $req.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($username, $pwd, $domain);  try {     $res = $req.GetResponse() } catch [System.Net.WebException] {     $res = $_.Exception.Response }  $int = [int]$res.StatusCode $status = $res.StatusCode return "$int $status"