I was testing automating few banking websites to check uptime, Invoke-WebRequest is use to access webiste, using this command I wrote a script to access bank website with PowerShell commands, but while executing scripts it was failing to access web site and showing below error.
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://bank.com
Invoke-WebRequest : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.
At line:1 char:1
+ Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://www.icicibank.com
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-WebRequest], WebExc
eption
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand
The cause of the error is Powershell by default uses TLS 1.0 to connect to website, but website security requires TLS 1.2. You can change this behavior with running any of the below command to use all protocols. You can also specify single protocol.
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls11, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12, [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Ssl3 [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = "Tls, Tls11, Tls12, Ssl3"
The HTTP status code 200 indicates that the request has succeeded.
![Microsoft Powershell invoke-Webrequest -uri [net.servicemanager] security protocol [net.securityprotocoltype] tls ssl tls12 secure error allow tls12.png](/files/images/6cb3e91a-2299-418c-b5a5-7f1f9bf75f0f.png)
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