RESTful Web Services with Powershell

Working with a client recently and needed to check connectivity to a web service.  I wanted to make a few HTTP requests. Normally I'd fire up curl and paste a URL with basic auth credentials: curl -u $USERNAME:$PASSWORD -k https://api.example.com/some/endpoint But... they were on Windows. No problem, fire up chocolately and install curl choco install …

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Disable Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA) for Selenium

Here's the problem: You have a site that you'd like to write automated tests for.  But when you attempt to login with Internet Explorer, it has a Windows Authentication dialog popup. Because this is a native UI element, Selenium can't touch it. If you have control of the machine (and the Windows ADFS domain controller), …