Open-Url.ps1
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<#PSScriptInfo
.VERSION 1.0.0 .AUTHOR Roman Kuzmin .COPYRIGHT (c) Roman Kuzmin .TAGS URL HTML Invoke Browser .GUID b316cc92-f84f-481c-a934-94b8f8710eb3 .LICENSEURI http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .PROJECTURI https://github.com/nightroman/PowerShelf #> <# .Synopsis Creates and opens HTML navigating to URL. .Description This command works around potential issues with complex URLs when Start-Process and other methods may fail. It opens a new HTML file navigating to the specified URL (assuming .html opens the browser). .Parameter Uri URL to open in .html associated browser. .Parameter File New HTML file to create and open. Default: "Temp:\Open-Url.html" .Link https://github.com/nightroman/PowerShelf #> [CmdletBinding()] param( [Parameter(Position=0, Mandatory=1)] [uri]$Uri , [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [string]$File = 'Temp:\Open-Url.html' ) $ErrorActionPreference = 1 Set-Content -LiteralPath $File -Value @" <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>URL</title> <script> window.location.href = "$Uri" </script> </head> <body> </body> </html> "@ Invoke-Item -LiteralPath $File |