Powershell script monitor website that requires login?

Question

I'm somewhat new to PowerShell, but can do some things. I have to monitor a website that's hosted on a 2008r2 server. I've found scripts online that might work for a regular site. In my case I need to monitor a website that requires user authentication from a domain user and I have an account I can use, although encrypting the creds would be great! The next trick which I haven't figure out how to do is after a user logs into the website they are on a landing page. Next they have to click a tab/link at the top of the page to get to the web page which is actually failing. It's a homegrown app that was just developed. It appears like it's an asp type error, but I need to monitor further to then gather data to troubleshoot. The web group "can't assist" with this it seems.... I'm enjoying learning anyway, can anyone help me?

Answer 1

You should be able to use curl.exe for Windows with Powershell ( http://curl.haxx.se/download.html )

I used curl a lot to monitor sites with a POST of credentials etc.

For example:

curl.exe http://username:password@api.somesite.com/test/blah?something=123

Please read through this: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html to get an idea of all the possible options.