Retrieve file from web

• sqldriver

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  September 6, 2013 at 2:36 pm

  #298630

  Hello,

  I've exhausted myself trying to get this to work with cURL, and am trying to get it to work with PS v3 now. I've stitched together code from a couple places and come up with this:

  $formFields = @{sendusername='user';password='pass'}

  invoke-webrequest “http://www.ims-dm.com/cgi/download2.php?productid=WIREFTPM”| -Method Post -Body $formFields select -exp links|where{$_.href -like "*.zip"}|select -exp href|foreach{start-bitstransfer $_ C:\SurveyComputing}

  Which results in this:

  -Method : The term '-Method' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.

  Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

  At line:1 char:81

  + ... tid=WIREFTPM”| -Method Post -Body $formFields select -exp links|where{$_.href -l ...

  + ~~~~~~~

  + CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (-Method:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

  The cURL issue I was running into was something with the URI of the website being obscured by a .php or Java redirect. Not sure if I'll have the same issue with PS, but I'd like to give something else a try.

  Any suggestions or pointers are appreciated.

  Thanks

• sqldriver

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  September 6, 2013 at 3:40 pm

  #1648260

  If there's anything else I can provide to help you help me, let me know!