Uploading to Artifactory from a Windows Powershell script

Question

I've successfully downloaded a file from Artifactory (Generic Repo) via a WebClient object. I'm having troubles uploading a file via the same method. I'm trying to figure out the simplest method for uploading via Powershell to our server.

Please note that installing other utilities like Curl is not an option at this point. I'm writing automation scripts and want to stick with a basic Windows 2008 r2 server, no installing other utilities since I can't count on them being there across all the servers.

If someone has an example script utilizing the Rest API, that would be perfect!

Example of the download code (this works):

$SOURCE = "https://artifactory.example.com/artifactory/net-generic-local/APP/BF_1.0.zip"  
$DESTINATION = ".\BF_1.0.zip"  
$AF_USER ="user"  
$AF_PWD ="password"  
$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient  
$WebClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($AF_USER,$AF_PWD)  
$WebClient.DownloadFile($SOURCE,$DESTINATION)  

This is an example of the upload code (does not work):

$SOURCE = ".\BF_2.0.zip"  
$DESTINATION = "https://artifactory.example.com/artifactory/net-generic-local/APP/BF_2.0.zip"  
$AF_USER ="user"  
$AF_PWD ="password"  
$WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient  
$WebClient.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential($AF_USER, $AF_PWD)  
$URI = New-Object System.Uri($DESTINATION)  
$WebClient.UploadFile($URI,$SOURCE)  

This is the error I'm getting from the upload:

Exception calling "UploadFile" with "2" argument(s): "The remote server returned an error: (405) Method Not Allowed."  
At E:\transient\af_put.ps1:8 char:1  
+ $WebClient.UploadFile($URI,$SOURCE)  
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException  
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebException  

Answer 1

My answer is certainly derivative, but this is what worked for me when pushing something to my Artifactory repo from powershell using an API token for authentication:

$credential_bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($username + ":" + $api_token)
$credentials = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String($credential_bytes)
$credential_header = "Basic " + $credentials    
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $artifactory_dest_url -InFile "my_file.zip" -Method Put -Headers @{"Authorization"="$credential_header"}

Sigh. I regret that I'm using Powershell. What am I doing with my life? Anyway, it works. Moving on.

Props to FoxDeploy and Maclnos.