PowerShell equivalent of curl

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Is there an equivalent of curl in PowerShell? Does it have some similar built-in capability or is there a 3rd party cmdlet?

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ipr101 · Answer 1 · 2011-10-10 11:26:27Z

The excellent Command Line Kung Fu blog has a post where they compare curl, wget and the related PowerShell commands -

akira · Answer 2 · 2011-12-11 16:38:28Z

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the closest thing to wget or curl on windows is bits (Background Intelligent Transfer Service), which has some snippets ready for powershell.

answered Dec 11 '11 at 16:38

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