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

You basically need to pass the username and password pair to Invoke-RestMethod as an encoded credentials variable.

What worked for me was the following:

$USERNAME = 'user'
$PASSWORD = 'password'
$IDP_URL = 'example.com/token'


$credPair = "$($USERNAME):$($PASSWORD)"
$encodedCredentials = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($credPair))

$parameters = @{
    Uri         = $IDP_URL
    Headers     = @{ 'Authorization' = "Basic $encodedCredentials" }
    Method      = 'POST'
    Body        = '...'
    ContentType = '...'
}

Invoke-RestMethod @parameters

Note how you can extract the request parameters into $parameters to avoid bloating your command.