how to recreate a working CURL command with Invoke-WebRequest in Powershell

Question

This curl command works as desired:

curl -H "X-Api-Key:j65k423lj4k2l3fds" `
     -X PUT `
     -d "alerts_enabled=true" `
        https://some/working/file.xml

How can I recreate this natively in PS with Invoke-WebRequest? I've tried

Invoke-WebRequest -Headers @{"X-Api-Key" = "j65k423lj4k2l3fds"} `
                  -Method PUT `
                  -Body "alerts_enabled=true" `
                  -Uri https://some/working/file.xml

I've also tried making objects for all the params (e.g. $headers = @{"X-Api-Key" = "Key:j65k423lj4k2l3fds"} and passing -Headers $headers).

Thanks

Answer 1

got it to work natively using invoke-webrequest. powershell guru here at work helped me out. Switched to the New Relic API version 2 (available at https://rpm.newrelic.com/api/explore), which uses JSON instead of xml, and made some sytax tweaks.

$json = @"{"alert_policy":[{"enabled":"true"}]"@

$headers = @{}
$headers["X-Api-Key"] = "j65k423lj4k2l3fds"

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://some/working/file.json" -Body $json -ContentType "application/json" -Headers $headers -Method Post

Answer 2

Try adding the parameter -ContentType e.g.:

Invoke-WebRequest -Headers @{"X-Api-Key" = "j65k423lj4k2l3fds"} -Method PUT `
                  -Body "alerts_enabled=true" -Uri https://some/working/file.xml `
                  -ContentType application/x-www-form-urlencoded

That results in a request that looks like this (from Fiddler):

PUT http://some/working/file.xml HTTP/1.1
X-Api-Key: j65k423lj4k2l3fds
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT; Windows NT 6.2; en-US) WindowsPowerShell/5.0.9701.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Host: some
Content-Length: 19
Expect: 100-continue

alerts_enabled=true

For testing, I changed the URL from https to http. If that doesn't work, go download Fiddler and inspect the RAW request when curl is used to see what is different.

Answer 3

This works for me in Powershell using the curl alias to Invoke-WebRequest...

 curl -H @{"X-Api-Key" = "j65k423lj4k2l3fds"} -Method PUT 'https://some/working/file.xml'