Powershell - Invoke-WebRequest to a URL with literal '/' (%2F) in it
Here is an alternate port of https://stackoverflow.com/a/784937/2864740 - it accepts a string and returns a new URI.
function CreateUriWithoutIncorrectSlashEncoding {
param(
[Parameter(Mandatory)][string]$uri
)
$newUri = New-Object System.Uri $uri
[void]$newUri.PathAndQuery # need to access PathAndQuery (presumably modifies internal state)
$flagsFieldInfo = $newUri.GetType().GetField("m_Flags", [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::Instance -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic)
$flags = $flagsFieldInfo.GetValue($newUri)
$flags = $flags -band (-bnot 0x30) # remove Flags.PathNotCanonical|Flags.QueryNotCanonical (private enum)
$flagsFieldInfo.SetValue($newUri, $flags)
$newUri
}
Usage:
$uri = CreateUriWithoutIncorrectSlashEncoding "https://server.com/api/v3/projects/foo%2Fbar"
Try the URL through this function
function fixuri($uri){
$UnEscapeDotsAndSlashes = 0x2000000;
$SimpleUserSyntax = 0x20000;
$type = $uri.GetType();
$fieldInfo = $type.GetField("m_Syntax", ([System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::Instance -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic));
$uriParser = $fieldInfo.GetValue($uri);
$typeUriParser = $uriParser.GetType().BaseType;
$fieldInfo = $typeUriParser.GetField("m_Flags", ([System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::Instance -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::NonPublic -bor [System.Reflection.BindingFlags]::FlattenHierarchy));
$uriSyntaxFlags = $fieldInfo.GetValue($uriParser);
$uriSyntaxFlags = $uriSyntaxFlags -band (-bnot $UnEscapeDotsAndSlashes);
$uriSyntaxFlags = $uriSyntaxFlags -band (-bnot $SimpleUserSyntax);
$fieldInfo.SetValue($uriParser, $uriSyntaxFlags);
}
$uri = New-Object System.Uri -ArgumentList ("https://server.com/api/v3/projects/foo%2Fbar")
fixuri $uri