Most people have heard of curl, but on Windows we haven’t always got that to hand. Well, the PowerShell team have thought of that.
If you just want to see whether a particular URL is working it’s as simple as:
$url = 'http://www.google.com/' Invoke-WebRequest $url
They’ve even created curl as an alias for it. Neat.
Sometimes you’ll want to test against a web app on your intranet that requires credentials. That’s easy, too:
$url = 'http://www.google.com/' $cred = Get-Credential 'domain\username' # Will show dialog asking for password. curl $url -credential $cred
And of course you can perform all the usual lovely PowerShell piping greatness:
1,2,3 | %{ curl 'server$_.mydomain.com' }
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