http requests with powershell
I am looking to make http requests to web pages with powershell, is this possible and if so, how may I achieve this? Can I make requests to https pages? I am able to make http requests with a bat file but not https, was hoping I could https page requests with powershell. You can use the usual WebRequest and HttpWebRequest classes provided by the .NET framework. $request = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create('http://example.com') # do something with $request It's no different from using the same classes and APIs from C#, except for the syntactic differences to PowerShell. PowerShell v3 also brings