Use basic authentification, ignore invalid and self-signed certificates and parse the request result

basic-auth-bash.sh

token=$(curl --insecure --request GET \
    --url "https://localhost:1234/Token" \
    --header "$(echo Authorization: Basic $(echo -n 'username:password' | base64))")
# echo $token
# open browser
# xdg-open "https://localhost:1234/?token=" + $token
sensible-browser "https://localhost:1234/?token=" + $token

basic-auth-powershell.ps1

$user = 'username'
$pass = 'password'
$url = 'https://localhost:1234/Token'

$pair = "$($user):$($pass)"

$encodedCreds = [System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($pair))

$Headers = @{
    ContentType = "text/plain"
    Authorization = "Basic $encodedCreds"
}

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
if (-not ([System.Management.Automation.PSTypeName]'ServerCertificateValidationCallback').Type)
{
$certCallback = @"
    using System;
    using System.Net;
    using System.Net.Security;
    using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;
    public class ServerCertificateValidationCallback
    {
        public static void Ignore()
        {
            if(ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback ==null)
            {
                ServicePointManager.ServerCertificateValidationCallback += 
                    delegate
                    (
                        Object obj, 
                        X509Certificate certificate, 
                        X509Chain chain, 
                        SslPolicyErrors errors
                    )
                    {
                        return true;
                    };
            }
        }
    }
"@
    Add-Type $certCallback
 }
[ServerCertificateValidationCallback]::Ignore()


$result = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $url -Headers $Headers -Method Get

$result.Headers.'Content-Type text/plain; charset=utf-8'
$token = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($result.Content)

# open browser
Start-Process ("https://localhost:1234/?token=" + $token)