Summary
This chapter explored the use of Invoke-WebRequest and how to work with and debug SSL negotiation problems.
Invoke-WebRequest is used to send requests to web services and get responses. The command makes a raw request available to work with.
Invoke-RestMethod is frequently used in place of Invoke-WebRequest and is written to make it easy to work with REST-based services.
Working with REST, we explored simple method calls, authentication, and OAuth negotiation, before exploring REST methods that require authenticated sessions.
SOAP is hard to find these days; it is not as quick or convenient for a developer to create a SOAP-based API. A sample project was used to show how the capabilities of a SOAP service might be discovered and used.
The next chapter explores remoting and remote management.
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