re: Finding a URL For File Transfer Cmdlets

Robbie Foust — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:20:20 GMT

Glad you like the script! I had a lot of fun writing it! It definitely increased my knowledge of Powershell and .NET.

- Robbie

re: Finding a URL For File Transfer Cmdlets

PowerShellTeam — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:52:09 GMT

In this particular case finding URL can be fairly easy. If you view HTML source of this page you will see something that looks like this in Download button script: http%3a%2f%2fdownload.microsoft.com%2fdownload%2fD%2f0%2fE%2fD0E6D2C1-2593-4017-B26D-7375BC9263D5%2fPowerShell_Setup_x86.msi. If you unescape it you will get the link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/0/E/D0E6D2C1-2593-4017-B26D-7375BC9263D5/PowerShell_Setup_x86.msi

However, in many cases it will be much harder to do since the button can call some obscure javascript method and to find the actual script you will need to do a complete Web Page first and then go looking for the script text through half megabyte of HTML code.

For these occasions, packet sniffers like Get-Packet are truly invaluable.

Vladimir Averkin

Windows PowerShell team

FileTransfer

Richard Siddaway's Blog — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:06:47 GMT

As someone who does a far amount of downloading of stuff – especially technical documents etc I was interested