Authentication error with webclient in powershell

Question

I'm relatively new to Powershell so really not sure where to go with this issue now. I am trying to download a file from a subversion repository and am getting the (401) Unauthorized" error. I am able to log into the site and download the file using IE using the exact Same credentials on the same machine.

$source = "http://repository/folder/File.exe"
$destination = "E:\Temp\File.exe"
$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$user="user"
$pwd=convertto-securestring -string "password" -AsPlainText -force
$creds=New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $user, $pwd  
$wc.Credentials = New-Object System.Net.NetworkCredential ($user,    $Creds.GetNetworkCredential().Password,"DOMAIN")

$download=$wc.DownloadFile($source, "$destination")

Exception calling "DownloadFile" with "2" argument(s): "The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized."

Any ideas if this is cross platform issue? And how to get around this?

Thanks

Raf · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-04 12:02:10Z

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Are you using basic auth on your iis/apache? If so try this:

$source = "http://repository/folder/File.exe"
$destination = "E:\Temp\File.exe"
$wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$credCache = new-object System.Net.CredentialCache
$creds = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($user,$pwd)
$credCache.Add($source, "Basic", $creds)
$wc.Credentials = $credCache
$wc.DownloadFile($source, $destination)

answered Jun 4, 2014 at 12:02

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kusky Over a year ago

thanks for the quick response. We are indeed using basic auth on the Apache and the above works.

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