Use `-UseBasicParsing` in all `Invoke-WebRequest` calls so that IE is not a dependency

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Use `-UseBasicParsing` in all `Invoke-WebRequest` calls so that IE is not a dependency

Closed this issue 7 years ago · 5 comments

For every Invoke-WebRequest in our tests, we need to add -UseBasicParsing. Without it, PowerShell on Windows will use IE. We don't want that to happen because we don't need complex parsing of the response body.

Answer 1 · 2018-01-02T01:50:05.000Z

Thanks to @BladeFireLight for pointing this out!

Answer 2 · 2018-01-03T02:37:30.000Z

If think that is the default in v6, without it though it kills the validations on server core.

Answer 3 · 2018-01-08T22:22:55.000Z

Yeah there is no -UseBasicParsing in v6 so we'll have to check for that.

Answer 4 · 2018-01-15T23:23:28.000Z

I just found out that v6 has -UseBasicParsing it just doesn't do anything because basic parsing is the default. We'll be able to simply add that flag and it should work everywhere.

Answer 5 · 2018-03-20T06:03:45.000Z

Fixed in #94 😄