How to make an authenticated web request in Powershell?

Question

In C#, I might do something like this:

System.Net.WebClient w = new System.Net.WebClient();
w.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, auth,          


        

Answer 1

For those that need Powershell to return additional information like the Http StatusCode, here's an example. Included are the two most likely ways to pass in credentials.

Its a slightly modified version of this SO answer:
How to obtain numeric HTTP status codes in PowerShell

$req = [system.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
# method 1 $req.UseDefaultCredentials = $true
# method 2 $req.Credentials = new NetworkCredential($username, $pwd, $domain); 
try
{
    $res = $req.GetResponse()
}
catch [System.Net.WebException]
{
    $res = $_.Exception.Response
}

$int = [int]$res.StatusCode
$status = $res.StatusCode
return "$int $status"