I’m excited to announce a new feature for Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod that will ship with PowerShell Core 6.1.0: Resume Downloads!
This is a feature that has been requested many times throughout the years and I’m please to say that it will be included in the next release of PowerShell Core. You should be able to preview the feature in 6.1.0-preview.2.
You can se the code changes in PR #6447.
Recently the PowerShell Team published their PowerShell Core 6.1 Roadmap. Several questions have come up about 6.1 plans for Invoke-WebRequest and Invoke-RestMethod. You may have noticed there is no mention of the Web Cmdlets in their roadmap. That is because the majority of the feature work for the cmdlets is being done by yours truly. As I am a community member and not a Microsoft employee, it would make sense that my work is not included in their blog. Anyway, I felt it was a good idea to share what I have in store for the next 6 months.
I should warn that this is more accurately called "Mark Kraus's PowerShell Core 6.1 Web Cmdlets Wish List" rather than a roadmap. I only have 2 features that are pretty much approved. The rest will depend on whether or not the changes actually get accepted. Also, I'm not part of any team working on this. It's just me and the issue queue back log of feature requests and bugs. If your company wants to hire me to work full time on the Web Cmdlets, then hit me up. Otherwise, this is all a side project for me and life happens. So please don't hold me to any deadlines! :)
In Part 1, I covered the primary changes in the actual code base of the PowerShell Core Web Cmdlets Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest and how those changes manifest themselves in the PowerShell user experience.
In Part 2, I covered outstanding issues as well missing and/or deprecated features.
In Part 3, I will cover new features available in PowerShell Core 6.0.0 Invoke-RestMethod & Invoke-WebRequest. I will also cover future plans for the cmdlets.
If you have not read Part 1 and Part 2, please do so before reading Part 3. This blog series goes in depth and requires a great many words to do so. To save space I will not repeat some information and will assume the reader as read Part 1 and Part 2.
A quick bit of news: PowerShell Core v6.0.0-rc.2 was released. Unless any blocking issues are discovered, this will be the final RC release and the next release will be GA in January 2018.
Pictured: The new -ResponseHeadersVariable parameter in action
I wanted to share with you another new feature added to the PowerShell Core Invoke-RestMethod Cmdlet: The -ResponseHeadersVariable parameter.
This feature will be available starting with PowerShell Core v6.0.0-beta.8 and is available now in the nightly builds or if you build it yourself from master.
