cURL seems to be the standard for casual testing of Web Services endpoints. I've been stuck with a Windows laptop lately for a client Salesforce project, and cURL (and Salesforce Workbench for that matter) can be flaky to deal with, esp in a security environment that's tightly controlled by Group Policy. Then I discovered
Invoke-RestMethod. It's a nify little cmdlet available since PowerShell 3.0.
My first task was to download an event log file, and as a complete newbie, I was done in 5 minutes with my 250 MB file in hand, no installation required! Here's how it looked like
The cmdlet has a ton of options, so I'm sure I'll be back to it a lot as long as I keep working on Windows with Salesforce REST APIs...
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