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2020.11.21

Public/Get-RemoteChecksum.ps1

                                # Author: Miodrag Milic <miodrag.milic@gmail.com>

# Last Change: 26-Nov-2016.

<#

.SYNOPSIS

    Download file from internet and calculate its checksum

#>

function Get-RemoteChecksum( [string] $Url, $Algorithm='sha256', $Headers ) {

    $fn = [System.IO.Path]::GetTempFileName()

    Invoke-WebRequest $Url -OutFile $fn -UseBasicParsing -Headers $Headers

    $res = Get-FileHash $fn -Algorithm $Algorithm | % Hash

    rm $fn -ea ignore

    return $res.ToLower()

}