Invoke-WebRequest, POST with parameters

Question

I\'m attempting to POST to a uri, and send the parameter username=me

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://example.com/foobar -Method POST

Answer 1

For some picky web services, the request needs to have the content type set to JSON and the body to be a JSON string. For example:

Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing http://example.com/service -ContentType "application/json" -Method POST -Body "{ 'ItemID':3661515, 'Name':'test'}"

or the equivalent for XML, etc.