Powershell - Scripts to Download and Save a File AND POST Data to a Web Page

Recently I created a couple of simple Powershell scripts to download and save a file and then send a POST Request to a Site.  Below are the scripts that I created.

$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

$wc.Headers.Add("User-Agent","IE6")       

$wc.Proxy = [System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy

$wc.Proxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials

$response = $wc.DownloadString("http://blah.com/master.txt")

Set-Content -Value $response -Path $env:APPDATA\Microsoft\output.txt

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$url = "http://blah.com/"

$encodedData = "b3V0Ym91bmQ%3d"

$params = New-Object System.Collections.Specialized.NameValueCollection

$params.Add('poster','blah55')

$params.Add('syntax','text')

$params.Add('content',$encodedData)

$wc = New-Object System.Net.WebClient

$wc.Headers.Add("User-Agent","IE6")       

$wc.Proxy = [System.Net.WebRequest]::DefaultWebProxy

$wc.Proxy.Credentials = [System.Net.CredentialCache]::DefaultNetworkCredentials

for ($i=1; $i -le 50; $i++)

{

                $response = $wc.UploadValues($url, "POST", $params)

                $decoded = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($response)

                Set-Content -Value $decoded -Path $env:APPDATA\Microsoft\post.txt

                start-sleep -seconds 600

}

$j=1