Http web request from batch file

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I need to execute a http web request from Plesk's Task Scheduler (using shared hosting on Windows/ASP.NET; no Powershell, whatsoever). Thought about using a batch file for this.

Is there an easy way to do this?

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Without external binaries - only the built-in windows capabilities -> https://github.com/npocmaka/batch.scripts/blob/master/hybrids/jscript/winhttpjs.bat

This is jscript/.bat hybrid and can be called like simple bat. Example usage (I've used http://requestb.in/ for test purposes):

  call winhttpjs.bat "http://requestb.in/xxxxxx" -method POST -header hdrs.txt -reportfile reportfile2.txt
   
  call winhttpjs.bat "http://requestb.in/xxxxxx" -method GET -header hdrs.txt -reportfile reportfile3.txt -saveTo c:\somezip.zip 

  call winhttpjs.bat "http://requestb.in/xxxxxx" -method POST -header hdrs.txt -reportfile reportfile2.txt -saveTo responsefile2 -ua "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2228.0 Safari/537.36"  -body-file some.json

Header files format should look like (if passed with -header command argument):

Header-1: Value-1
ExampleHeader: Value2

Does not support multi-part requests (though I'm planning to add such a feature (some day))

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the above batch file will run:

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Enjoy:

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See forfiles documentation for more details.

For more goodies, refer to An A-Z Index of the Windows XP command line.

If you don't have forfiles installed on your machine, copy it from any Windows Server 2003 to your Windows XP machine at %WinDir%\system32\. This is possible since the EXE is fully compatible between Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.

Later versions of Windows and Windows Server have it installed by default.

For Windows 7 and newer (including Windows 10):

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