PowerShell v3 Function Get WebServerInformation

Following on the heels of my last post, Test-Uri, this function provides a canned function to test web responses. As part of the CodePlex module for PowerShell security I am working on, this function works to gather key details about servers you may be contacting. Its quite long, but, the majority of it is just parameter definition and if statements.

function Get-WebServerInformation

{

      <#

            .NOTES

                  Author: Will Steele

                 

            .EXAMPLE

                  Get-WebServerInformation -Uri http://www.microsoft.com -All

                 

                  IsMutuallyAuthenticated : False

                  Cookies                 : {}

                  Headers                 : {Accept-Ranges, Content-Length, Cache-Control, Content-Type...}

                  SupportsHeaders         : True

                  ContentLength           : 1020

                  ContentEncoding         :

                  ContentType             : text/html

                  CharacterSet            : ISO-8859-1

                  Server                  : Microsoft-IIS/7.5

                  LastModified            : 3/16/2009 3:35:26 PM

                  StatusCode              : OK

                  StatusDescription       : OK

                  ProtocolVersion         : 1.1

                  ResponseUri             : http://www.microsoft.com/

                  Method                  : GET

                  IsFromCache             : False

                 

            .EXAMPLE

                  Get-WebServerInformation -Uri http://www.google.com -CharacterSet

                 

                  ISO-8859-1

                 

            .EXAMPLE

                  Get-WebServerInformation -Uri http://www.kofax.com -StatusCode -CharacterSet

                 

                  ISO-8859-1

                  OK

                 

            .PARAMETER -Uri

                  A required parameter indicating the URI of the remote server.

      #>

     

      [CmdletBinding()]

      param(

            [Parameter(

                  Mandatory = $true,

                  Position = 1,

                  ValueFromPipeline = $true

            )]

            [ValidateScript({Test-Uri -Uri $_})]

            [String]

            $Uri,

           

            [Switch]

            $All = $false,

           

            [Switch]

            $CharacterSet = $false,

                       

            [Switch]

            $ContentEncoding = $false,

            [Switch]

            $ContentLength = $false,           

           

            [Switch]

            $ContentType = $false,

           

            [Switch]

            $Cookies = $false,           

           

            [Switch]

            $Headers = $false,

           

            [Switch]

            $IsFromCache = $false,       

           

            [Switch]

            $IsMutuallyAuthenticated = $false,

           

            [Switch]

            $LastModified = $false,

           

            [Switch]

            $Method = $false,            

           

            [Switch]

            $ProtocolVersion = $false,

           

            [Switch

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