PowerShell's Invoke-RestMethod equivalent of curl -u (Basic Authentication)

Question

What is the equivalent of

curl -u username:password ...

in PowerShell\'s Invoke-RestMethod? I tried this:

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Answer 1

This version works with Get-Credential's PSCredential object. It also works cross-platform in PowerShell 6.0. It does this by avoiding use of BSTR calls, which are sometimes suggested when attempting to extract the password from PSCredential.

$creds = Get-Credential
$unsecureCreds = $creds.GetNetworkCredential()
$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $unsecureCreds.UserName,$unsecureCreds.Password)))
Remove-Variable unsecureCreds

Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} ...