easiest way to make a POST action to a URI

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I am on windows and What is the easiest and fastest way to make a POST action to a URI? Can I achieve this with command line or PowerShell?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered May 05 '11 at 15:28

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Powershell example:

 $c=New-Object System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection
 $c.Add('param1','value1')
 $c.Add('param2','value2')
 $wc = New-Object system.net.webclient
 $d = $wc.uploadvalues("http://your.url",$c)

answered May 05 '11 at 15:28

Andrei Schneider

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$d is a byte array containing the body of the response from the resource. – Andrei Schneider May 05 '11 at 15:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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How about using curl?

Explicit usage in your pespective is described here.

Sample POST usage below (extracted from the curl manual):

curl -d "name=Rafael%20Sagula&phone=3320780" http://www.where.com/guest.cgi

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:18

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answered May 05 '11 at 15:24

nulltoken

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Thanks for the answer. looks like the easiest way. but how do I get the response back with this code? – tugberk May 05 '11 at 15:55
You could redirect the output using ">" into a file or a variable – nulltoken May 05 '11 at 16:28
I'll try that but I am now unable to find where the command line tool is on the web. I downloaded something but it ended up as source code. do u know where I can download that command line tool – tugberk May 05 '11 at 16:38

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 04 '15 at 08:45

This is now native for PowerShell since version 3.0:

Invoke-WebRequest -method POST -uri http://somewhere.com/rest/sample -body $content

Aliased to iwr, wget and curl.

Saves all of the headache of creating a WebClient object.

According to Wikipedia:

PowerShell 3.0 is integrated with Windows 8 and with Windows Server 2012. Microsoft has also made PowerShell 3.0 available for Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, for Windows Server 2008 with Service Pack 1, and for Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1.

easiest way to make a POST action to a URI

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