Use of WebClient Class

ScriptingGamesAug15Soln.ps1

#Use of WebClient Class
$webClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$webClient.DownloadString("http://www.telize.com/geoip")| ConvertFrom-Json | Select-Object longitude,latitude,country_code,timezone | Format-Table -AutoSize
#This is a simple function to wrap the above 
$webClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient
$url="http://www.telize.com/geoip"
function Get-GeoInformation
{
	[CmdletBinding()] 
    param
	(
		[string]$url
	)
	try
	{
		$out=$webClient.DownloadString("$url")
		$out
	}
	catch [Exception]
	{
		 throw $_.Exception.Message
	}
}
Get-GeoInformation $url| ConvertFrom-Json | Select-Object longitude,latitude,country_code,timezone |Format-Table -AutoSize