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I am looking to make http requests to web pages with powershell, is this possible and if so, how may I achieve this?
Can I make requests to https pages? I am able to make http requests with a bat file but not https, was hoping I could https page requests with powershell.
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To get a certificate thumbprint, use the Get-Item or Get-ChildItem command in the PowerShell Cert: drive. Specifies the content type of the web request. If this parameter is omitted and the request method is POST, Invoke-WebRequest sets the content type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded .
iex is an alias for Invoke-Expression . Here the two backticks don't make any difference, but just obfuscates the command a little. iex executes a string as an expression, even from pipe. Here Start-Process is a cmdlet that starts processes.
The “$_” is said to be the pipeline variable in PowerShell. The “$_” variable is an alias to PowerShell's automatic variable named “$PSItem“. It has multiple use cases such as filtering an item or referring to any specific object.
Invoke-RestMethod is perfect for quick APIs that have no special response information such as Headers or Status Codes, whereas Invoke-WebRequest gives you full access to the Response object and all the details it provides.
You can use the usual WebRequest and HttpWebRequest classes provided by the .NET framework.
$request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create('http://example.com')
# do something with $request
It's no different from using the same classes and APIs from C#, except for the syntactic differences to PowerShell.
PowerShell v3 also brings Invoke-WebRequest and a few others.
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