How to obtain numeric HTTP status codes in PowerShell

Question

I know of a few good ways to build web clients in PowerShell: the .NET classes System.Net.WebClient and System.Net.HttpWebRequest, or the COM object Msxml2.XMLHTTP. From what I

Answer 1

Use the [system.net.httpstatuscode] enumerated type.

ps> [enum]::getnames([system.net.httpstatuscode])
Continue
SwitchingProtocols
OK
Created
Accepted
NonAuthoritativeInformation
NoContent
ResetContent
...

To get the numeric code, cast to [int]:

ps> [int][system.net.httpstatuscode]::ok
200

Hope this helps,

-Oisin