How to send a HTTP request within a batch file?

[FoolFish]

Any help would be much appreciated!
- On SERVER 1, I have a batch file to build a HTTP request, like: http://SERVER2ADDRESS:PORT/SessionControl/CCXML10.start?tokenid=MYCCXMLAPP
- Within the batch file, what command to use to acutally send the HTTP request such that it will be opened on SERVER 2?

[Geek-9pm]

Can a browser make the request?
Run Internet Explorer From Command Prompt

[Rob Pomeroy]

Can you use Powershell?  It can do reasonably sophisticated web transactions.

[Geek-9pm]

Rob Pomero, good idea. Here is one on many such tips for PowerShel.

Get-Web (Another round of wget for PowerShell)
By Joel 'Jaykul' Bennett on 01-May-2008

Well, after multiple attempts at a wget PowerShell script (the last one works very well for downloading web pages, files, as long as you don’t need to send post parameters or anything like that) ... I found myself writing a script last week that included a custom HTTP POST function as well as using some prior functionality I wrote (ConvertFrom-Html) to convert HTML files to XML documents — which PowerShell can deal with nicely.

[Geek-9pm]

Forgot the link.
http://huddledmasses.org/get-web-another-round-of-wget-for-powershell/

[Rob Pomeroy]

Some sample code:

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# WebClient object, for querying a web server through a proxy server with POST data
$wc = new-Object System.Net.WebClient
$proxy = New-Object System.Net.WebProxy('proxy.local', '8080')
$proxy.BypassList = 'someserver.local'
$wc.proxy = $proxy
$post_vars = new-object System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection

# Download a page
$startpage = $wc.DownloadString("http://wherever.com")

$post_vars.Add('variable1','value1')
$post_vars.Add('variable2',$value2)
$endpage = $wc.UploadValues('http://wherever.com/upload', 'POST', $post_vars)

# For debugging:
$response = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($endpage)
Write-Host $response