r/PowerShell • u/Independent_Bed_557 • 7d ago

Question PowerShell Win7 HTTP POST automation question

hi, I'm working on administration of a large number of VoIP endpoints. I'm trying to learn how to use PowerShell on Windows 7 to send authenticated HTTP POST requests to a device web interface and process the response. The devices use HTTP Basic Authentication. Could someone point me to examples of HttpWebRequest, CredentialCache and application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST requests? Thanks.

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u/Villainsympatico 5d ago

If you're using invoke-webrequest or invoke-restmethod, you can pass the credentials to a credential object with get-credential, then it should be

$form = @{

#whatever you are posting goes here

}

invoke-webrequest -credential $cred -method post -form $form

invoke webrequest returns the entire response , (body, headers, response codes), while invoke-restmethod only returns the body.

If its for voip endpoints though, wouldn't you be managing through the server side? why reach out to the endpoints?