Update Jan 2014: With Powershell v3, released with Windows 8, you can do this:
(Invoke-webrequest -URI "http://www.kernel.org").Content
Original Post, valid for Powershell Version 2
This solution is very similar to the other answers from stej, Jay Bazusi and Marco Shaw.
It is a bit more general, by installing a new module into your module directory, psurl. The module psurl adds new commands in case you have to do a lot of html-fetching (and POSTing) with powershell.
(new-object Net.WebClient).DownloadString("http://psget.net/GetPsGet.ps1") | iex
See the homepage of the code-sharing website http://psget.net/.
This nice line of PowerShell script will dowload GetPsGet.ps1 and send
it to Invoke-Expression to install PsGet Module.
Then install PsUrl, a Powershell Module inspired by curl:
To install something (in our case PsUrl) from central directory just type:
install-module PsUrl
get-module -name psurl
Output:
ModuleType Name ExportedCommands
---------- ---- ----------------
Script psurl {Get-Url, Send-WebContent, Write-Url, Get-WebContent}
Command:
get-command -module psurl
Output:
CommandType Name Definition
----------- ---- ----------
Function Get-Url ...
Function Get-WebContent ...
Alias gwc Get-WebContent
Function Send-WebContent ...
Alias swc Send-WebContent
Function Write-Url ...
You need to do this only once.
Note that this error might occur:
Q: Error "File xxx cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see "get-help about_signing" for more details."
A: By default, PowerShell restricts execution of all scripts. This is all about security. To "fix" this run PowerShell as Administrator and call
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
From now on, in your new powershell sessions/scripts, do this:
import-module psurl
get-url "http://www.google.com"
To download and save to a file, do this:
get-url "http://www.google.com" | out-file -filepath "myfile.html"
Best Answer
If you want to use
NTLM
, that's what you should specify instead ofBasic
:Also you might need to specify the domain: