{"id":4701,"date":"2009-01-11T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/powershell\/2009\/01\/11\/finding-a-url-for-file-transfer-cmdlets\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:12:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T20:12:54","slug":"finding-a-url-for-file-transfer-cmdlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/finding-a-url-for-file-transfer-cmdlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding a URL For File Transfer Cmdlets"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just posted a blog about our new File Transfer Cmdlets<\/a> in which I artfully dodged a difficult question:  How do you get the URL to do the file transfer?  Sometimes you are going to have it but other times you\u2019ll go to a website and it can be bloody impossible to find the URL that you need to download.  That was the case with the example I used.  Let me provide it.  Navigate HERE<\/a> and tell me if you can find the URLs to download the kits? (If you find out how \u2013 let me know \u2013 I\u2019d REALLY appreciate it.) <\/p>\n

My new motto is Experiment, Enjoy, Engage (which means share).  Luckily, we have a great community of people already doing this.  One of them is Robbie Foust<\/a>.  Robbie recently wrote a Packet Sniffer For PowerShell<\/a>.  I picked it up over the holidays and thought it was wicked cool but I wasn\u2019t sure when I would use it.  Well\u2026. I didn\u2019t have to wait to long for that question to be answered.  <\/p>\n

Here is how I got the URL for to transfer the file.  I downloaded Robbie\u2019s script from HERE<\/a>.  I ran Get-Packet and it went displayed everything and caused a beep-storm on my PC.  I thought about a minute and came up with the one-liner below.  I navigated to the download page in my browser, ran the one-liner, clicked the download button, captured the packet, hit ESC to stop Get-packet and then stopped the file transfer.  Here is what it looked like:<\/p>\n

PS> Get-Packet |where {$_.data -match “download”}
Using IPv4 Address: 192.168.1.195 <\/font><\/p>\n

Press ESC to stop the packet sniffer …<\/font> <\/font><\/p>\n

Destination : 192.168.1.195
Source      : 207.46.19.254
Version     : 4
Protocol    : TCP
Sequence    : 3205106908
Window      : 65535
DestPort    : 57728
SourcePort  : 80
Flags       : {PSH, ACK}
Data        : HTTP\/1.1 302 Found
              Cache-Control: private
              Content-Type: text\/html; charset=utf-8
              Location: <\/font><\/font>http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/D\/0\/E\/D0E6D2C1<\/font><\/a>
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              <html><head><title>Object moved<\/title><\/head><body>
              <h2>Object moved to <a href=”<\/font>http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/down<\/font><\/a>
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Time        : 1\/11\/2009 10:36:44 AM <\/font><\/p>\n

Is that sweet or what?  10,000 thanks Robbie \u2013 you moved the ball forward.<\/p>\n

Experiment, Enjoy, Engage!<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Snover [MSFT]
Windows Management Partner Architect
Visit the Windows PowerShell Team blog at:    http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/PowerShell<\/a>
Visit the Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter at:  http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/scriptcenter\/hubs\/msh.mspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just posted a blog about our new File Transfer Cmdlets in which I artfully dodged a difficult question:  How do you get the URL to do the file transfer?  Sometimes you are going to have it but other times you\u2019ll go to a website and it can be bloody impossible to find the URL […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":13641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,137,210,270],"class_list":["post-4701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powershell","tag-bits","tag-ctp3","tag-jeffrey-snover","tag-powershell-v2"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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