Download Powershell HTTP POST file for REST api

Question

I am new to Powershell and cannot send the file via an HTTP POST request. Everything works fine except for sending / downloading a file. Is this possible using my existing code?

Here is my code:

    # VARIABLES
    $myFile = "c:\sample_file.csv"
    $updateUrl = "http://www.example.com/processor"
    $postData  =  "field1=value1"
    $postData += "&field2=value2"
    $postData += "&myFile=" + $myFile

    # EXECUTE FUNCTION
    updateServer -url $updateUrl -data $postData

    function updateServer {
        param(
            [string]$url = $null,
            [string]$data = $null,
            [System.Net.NetworkCredential]$credentials = $null,
            [string]$contentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
            [string]$codePageName = "UTF-8",
            [string]$userAgent = $null
        );

        if ( $url -and $data ){
            [System.Net.WebRequest]$webRequest = [System.Net.WebRequest]::Create($url);
            $webRequest.ServicePoint.Expect100Continue = $false;
            if ( $credentials ){
                $webRequest.Credentials = $credentials;
                $webRequest.PreAuthenticate = $true;
            }
            $webRequest.ContentType = $contentType;
            $webRequest.Method = "POST";
            if ( $userAgent ){
                $webRequest.UserAgent = $userAgent;
            }

            $enc = [System.Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding($codePageName);
            [byte[]]$bytes = $enc.GetBytes($data);
            $webRequest.ContentLength = $bytes.Length;
            [System.IO.Stream]$reqStream = $webRequest.GetRequestStream();
            $reqStream.Write($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length);
            $reqStream.Flush();

            $resp = $webRequest.GetResponse();
            $rs = $resp.GetResponseStream();
            [System.IO.StreamReader]$sr = New-Object System.IO.StreamReader -argumentList $rs;
            $sr.ReadToEnd();
        }
    }

Answer 1

Two thoughts. At first it seems that you are loading the file name, but not the contents of the file. Secondly, if you upload the contents of the file to POST, you will most likely need a URL to encode the data using something like [System.Web.HttpUtility]::UrlEncode(). Also check out my answer to this related SO question .

Answer 2

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