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

I know this is a really old question, but I wanted to share an update somewhere. None of the posts I was finding for Basic Auth with PowerShell were working for me. After much trial-and-error and reading through the MS Docs I found that I needed to use the -AllowUnencryptedAuthentication parameter because I was connecting using http. I also had to upgrade my PS version to get access to the parameter.

From the description of the parameter: "Allows sending of credentials and secrets over unencrypted connections. By default, supplying Credential or any Authentication option with a Uri that does not begin with https:// will result in an error and the request will abort to prevent unintentionally communicating secrets in plain text over unencrypted connections. To override this behavior at your own risk, supply the AllowUnencryptedAuthentication parameter."

Answer 2

#Requires -Version 6
$Uri = 'https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass'
# use "user" and "pass" when prompted for credentials
$Credential = Get-Credential
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $Uri -Authentication Basic -Credential $Credential