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Rewrite CURL in PowerShell using Invoke-WebRequest with multiple certificates

I use the following curl command to publish some data from an IoT Thing to AWS's IoT Core service. curl.exe --tlsv1.2 --cacert root-CA.pem --cert certificate.pem --key private.pem -X POST -d "$($Body)"…
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Powershell - Subsequent Invoke-Webrequest extra slow

I am running into issues running subsequent invoke-webrequests. Say I open the ISE for the first time and run the code below, I get the correct output in a few milliseconds. Elapsed : 00:00:00.1780360 The See code below. $timer =…
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Usage of Invoke-WebRequest, HttpClient Class and WebRequest Class

I am trying to send a Client-Certificate authenticated HTTPS-Request to a Web Server. The only way I was able to get a "200" Response from this Server was with the following code using the Webrequest Class: using namespace…
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How can I access the raw request generated by Invoke-WebRequest in Powershell?

I have been tasked with writing a certain Powershell script into Go. I do not believe I am at liberty to share many of the details of what this script needs to do, except this: the script makes a call to an API using Invoke-WebRequest. The request…
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How to echo if invoke-webrequest failed due to an invalid/expired url else continue download in Powershell CLI?

I want to use a powershell command inside a batch file to download a file. My code looks like that and works for just downloading the file from that specific url: powershell "$progresspreference='silentlycontinue'; wget -uri…
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PowerShell ConvertTo-Xml vs [XML] Accelerator Type

I'm executing an HTTP Get request (via Invoke-WebRequest) against a website, that's in turn, is returning the following XML structure:
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PowerShell, download the contents of a StackOverflow answer or comment

Each answer or comment on a StackOverflow question thread has a unique URL. How can we use that URL with Invoke-WebRequest (or other tool) to capture just the contents of that answer or comment in mini-Markdown, and from that, some useful…
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PowerShell, Invoke-WebRequest for a url that is not pointing at a file, but initiates a file download

I can download the Google Chrome installer easily as follows: Invoke-WebRequest "http://dl.google.com/chrome/install/latest/chrome_installer.exe" -OutFile "$env:Temp\chrome_installer.exe" However, for Opera, I want specifically the latest 64-bit…
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Powershell Invoke-WebRequest returns "please enable javascript"

I'm trying to do something like this to parse a homepage with a login page but Invoke-WebRequest doesn't return anything. The page I'm trying to access is https://www.suidoapp.waterworks.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/#/login and the code I'm running is…
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Powershell ISE VSCODE Invoke-Webrequest difference

I am try to download the nuget.exe via Invoke-WebRequest inside a function. If i use Windows Powershell ISE everything works fine. $request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://dist.nuget.org/win-x86-commandline/latest/nuget.exe" -UseBasicParsing…
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invoke-WebRequest and a proxy that refuses to die in Powershell 5.1

I have a Windows Server 2019 instance that used to have a proxy server configured in its proxy setting but has since been disabled from Proxy Settings -> Proxy If I run the powershell 5.1 command: Invoke-WebRequest https:// then i'm still…
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Getting wrongly encoded HTML response from Powershell Invoke-WebRequest

I am calling into an API endpoint with Invoke-WebRequest and the response headers are: content-encoding: br content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 What do I need to do for the invoke-webrequest response to not look like…
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Invoke-WebRequest drop-in replacement for PowerShell 7 that uses System.Net.WebRequest

PowerShell 7's Invoke-WebRequest is much slower than PowerShell 5.1's. In some cases four-to-five times slower, as outlined in this issue. But even measuring the most basic web requests between the two, PowerShell 7's is at least twice as slow. This…
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tokenInvoke-WebRequest to site using Microsoft/Google OAuth

I need to access this main site https://www.truecaller.com/search/eg/xxxx via Powershell. I wrote many PowerShell scripts to Invoke-WebRequest using forms authentication, but this time the website is using external authentication from Google or…
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Save File out of return value from invoke-webrequest

I am trying to download a file from a website with powershell and save it in a C:\temp dir with it's original name if i try Invoke-WebRequest -Uri ("uri to file download") -Method Get with the "-OutFile" Parameter i can save the file but not with…
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