how to recreate a working CURL command with Invoke-WebRequest in Powershell

This curl command works as desired:

curl -H "X-Api-Key:j65k423lj4k2l3fds" ` -X PUT ` -d "alerts_enabled=true" ` 

How can I recreate this natively in PS with Invoke-WebRequest? I've tried

Invoke-WebRequest -Headers @{"X-Api-Key" = "j65k423lj4k2l3fds"} ` -Method PUT ` -Body "alerts_enabled=true" ` -Uri 

I've also tried making objects for all the params (e.g. $headers = @{"X-Api-Key" = "Key:j65k423lj4k2l3fds"} and passing -Headers $headers).

Thanks

3 Answers

Try adding the parameter -ContentType e.g.:

Invoke-WebRequest -Headers @{"X-Api-Key" = "j65k423lj4k2l3fds"} -Method PUT ` -Body "alerts_enabled=true" -Uri ` -ContentType application/x-www-form-urlencoded

That results in a request that looks like this (from Fiddler):

PUT HTTP/1.1
X-Api-Key: j65k423lj4k2l3fds
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT; Windows NT 6.2; en-US) WindowsPowerShell/5.0.9701.0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Host: some
Content-Length: 19
Expect: 100-continue
alerts_enabled=true

For testing, I changed the URL from https to http. If that doesn't work, go download Fiddler and inspect the RAW request when curl is used to see what is different.

got it to work natively using invoke-webrequest. powershell guru here at work helped me out. Switched to the New Relic API version 2 (available at ), which uses JSON instead of xml, and made some sytax tweaks.

$json = @"{"alert_policy":[{"enabled":"true"}]"@
$headers = @{}
$headers["X-Api-Key"] = "j65k423lj4k2l3fds"
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "" -Body $json -ContentType "application/json" -Headers $headers -Method Post

This works for me in Powershell using the curl alias to Invoke-WebRequest...

 curl -H @{"X-Api-Key" = "j65k423lj4k2l3fds"} -Method PUT '