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

Here is an alternate port of https://stackoverflow.com/a/784937/2864740 - it accepts a string and returns a new URI.

function CreateUriWithoutIncorrectSlashEncoding {
    param(
        [Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$uri
    )

    $newUri = New-Object System.Uri $uri

    [void]$newUri.PathAndQuery # need to access PathAndQuery (presumably modifies internal state)
    $flagsFieldInfo = $newUri.GetType().GetField("m_Flags", [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::Instance -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic)
    $flags = $flagsFieldInfo.GetValue($newUri)
    $flags = $flags -band (-bnot 0x30) # remove Flags.PathNotCanonical|Flags.QueryNotCanonical (private enum)
    $flagsFieldInfo.SetValue($newUri, $flags)

    $newUri
}

Usage:

$uri = CreateUriWithoutIncorrectSlashEncoding "https://server.com/api/v3/projects/foo%2Fbar"