PowerShell HTTP Cookie Catcher (WebRequest, SSL Certificate Validation Check, Expect 100)

cookiecatcher.ps1

[Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = {$true}
[Net.ServicePointManager]::Expect100Continue = $false

$cc = new-object Net.CookieContainer
$req = [Net.WebRequest]::Create("https://www.example.com/service")
$req.CookieContainer = $cc
$req.Method = 'POST'
$req.Timeout = 5000
$req.ContentType = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'

$dataAr = [Text.Encoding]::GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes("ExamplePostData")
$rs = $req.GetRequestStream()
$rs.Write($dataAr, 0, $dataAr.length)
$rs.Close()
$req.GetResponse() | Out-Null

$cc.GetCookies($req.RequestUri) | % { if ($_.Name -eq 'ExampleCookie') { $exampleCookie = $_.Value } }