Powershell - Invoke-WebRequest to a URL with literal '/' (/) in it

Question

I have been trying to access a URL with a / character in it from powershell, using the following command (it\'s a query to a gitlab server to retrieve a project ca

Answer 1

Try the URL through this function

function fixuri($uri){
  $UnEscapeDotsAndSlashes = 0x2000000;
  $SimpleUserSyntax = 0x20000;

  $type = $uri.GetType();
  $fieldInfo = $type.GetField("m_Syntax", ([System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::Instance -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic));

  $uriParser = $fieldInfo.GetValue($uri);
  $typeUriParser = $uriParser.GetType().BaseType;
$fieldInfo = $typeUriParser.GetField("m_Flags", ([System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::Instance -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::FlattenHierarchy));
$uriSyntaxFlags = $fieldInfo.GetValue($uriParser);

$uriSyntaxFlags = $uriSyntaxFlags -band (-bnot $UnEscapeDotsAndSlashes);
$uriSyntaxFlags = $uriSyntaxFlags -band (-bnot $SimpleUserSyntax);
$fieldInfo.SetValue($uriParser, $uriSyntaxFlags);
}

$uri = New-Object System.Uri -ArgumentList ("https://server.com/api/v3/projects/foo%2Fbar")
fixuri $uri