CODEWITHSUNDEEP
powershellwindows-server-2003
user3106078
user3106078

Reputation:

Invoke-WebRequest for PowerShell Version 2

What is the equivalent to Invoke-WebRequest function in PowerShell Version 2. This is what I am trying to doing with my function as I cannot upgrade to PowerShell 4 because I am working on Windows Server 2003.

Invoke-WebRequest $uri -Body ($baseMessage | ConvertTo-Json -Compress) -Method Post -ContentType "application/json"

Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3505

Answers (2)

Nathan Rice
Nathan Rice

Reputation: 3111

$Web = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$Web.OpenRead($url)
$PageContents = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader($Web)
$PageContents.ReadToEnd()

If you're looking to submit JSON data you can use this instead:

$Encoding = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding("ASCII")
$postArray = $Encoding.GetBytes($json)
$Web = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url)
$Web.Method = "POST"
$Web.Timeout = 10000;
$Stream = $Web.GetRequestStream()
$Stream.Write($postArray, 0, $postArray.Length)
$Web.GetResponse()

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Net.WebClient_methods(v=vs.80).aspx

Found another similar question on stackoverflow:

PowerShell WebRequest POST

Upvotes: 3

Graham Gold
Graham Gold

Reputation: 2475

You can use System.Net.Webrequest .NET class in powershell v2 instead.

See this example from one of my powershell answers: Powershell - View Website Source Information

And also answer to this shows how to set json content type, albeit in C# How to get json response using system.net.webrequest in c#?

Upvotes: 1

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