Invoke-WebRequest throws an error on OS X El Capitan

[AdilHindistan]

Steps to reproduce

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "www.microsoft.com"

Expected behavior

Should return an object holding web request results

Actual behavior

Returns an error:
invoke-webrequest : The type initializer for 'System.Net.Http.CurlHandler' threw an exception.
At line:1 char:1

• invoke-webrequest "www.microsoft.com"

• - CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Invoke-WebRequest], TypeInitializationException
  - FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.TypeInitializationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand
  

Environment data

Name Value

---

PSVersion 6.0.0-alpha
PSEdition Core
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 3.0.0.0
GitCommitId v6.0.0-alpha.9
CLRVersion
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion

1.1.0.1

[ffeldhaus]

The command works for me on Mac OS X 10.11.6 with the same PowerShell version you have.

[qlikq]

I have exactly same issue
Mac OSX 10.11.4
PS /Users/gregu/Desktop> Invoke-RestMethod -uri google.com
Invoke-RestMethod : The type initializer for 'System.Net.Http.CurlHandler' threw an exception.
At line:1 char:1

• Invoke-RestMethod -uri google.com

• - CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Invoke-RestMethod], TypeInitializationException
  - FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.TypeInitializationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand
  

[gavinelder]

I was able to reproduce and resolve this issue by installing .net core https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#macos

Powershell needs .net core to function fully.

[qlikq]

setsquared: bingo ! thank you for helping out ! Works as expected now.

[daxian-dbw]

@andschwa is the powershell package for os x having the pre-requisites installed?

[andyleejordan]

There's no way to install prereqs with a PKG. We should dump it for a homebrew formula ASAP.

I do believe the installation documentation is missing OpenSSL info; although the manual link step should be unnecessary as we patch the .NET Core binaries.

Someone recently pointed out that Http.Client may require curl to be installed --with-openssl.

[andyleejordan]

@gavinelder PowerShell does not need .NET Core installed; PowerShell ships its own copy of .NET Core.

Unfortunately, .NET Core really broke their OpenSSL support, and now require the extra manual setup:

brew install openssl
ln -s /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libcrypto.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/
ln -s /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl.1.0.0.dylib /usr/local/lib/

But this should never be done on a system, for the very good reasons that the homebrew team stopped allowing you to brew link --force openssl.

Instead, we patch the provided .NET Core crypto libraries to look for OpenSSL in the right place, provided it's been installed. (Documentation here needs to be updated.)

[closedstack]

still getting the error with latest download on Oct 14

PS /Users/sunilm> $PSVersionTable

Name Value

---

PSVersion 6.0.0-alpha
PSEdition Core
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion 3.0.0.0
GitCommitId v6.0.0-alpha.10
CLRVersion
WSManStackVersion 3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.3
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1

OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016

[andyleejordan]

@vors did you patch your binaries when you built the last OS X package?

[andyleejordan]

@closedstack build from source, it's fixed but requires all the different .NET Core crypto libraries to be patched (like those in ~/.nuget). My guess is the packager didn't clear those out after Start-PSBootstrap was fixed to patch them. Let me know if it repros after building completely cleanly from source.

[closedstack]

@andschwa Didn't build it. Downloaded the latest binary for OS X from github. Maybe that binary needs to be rebuilt?

[andyleejordan]

@closedstack I know, I'm suggesting you build from source until the package is rebuilt.

[vors]

@andschwa I wiped out ~/.nuget for the upcoming release alpha.11.

[andyleejordan]

Confirmed: the fix was picked up in alpha.11. 🎉

[closedstack]

Installed Aplha 11 on top of Alpha 10, still getting the same error I think. I wish the errors were more descriptive

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri www.bing.com
Invoke-WebRequest : The type initializer for 'System.Net.Http.CurlHandler' threw an exception.
At line:1 char:1

• Invoke-WebRequest -Uri www.bing.com

• - CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Invoke-WebRequest], TypeInitializationException
  - FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.TypeInitializationException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeWebRequestCommand
  

[andyleejordan]

Okay I have to ask: did you install OpenSSL through home brew?

[closedstack]

no.. in fact I didn't even have homebrew installed until yesterday and no openssl through homebrew.
OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016

[andyleejordan]

Okay, install OpenSSL per the OS X installation docs. .NET Core requires
this.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016, 5:30 PM closedstack notifications@github.com wrote:

no.. in fact I didn't even have homebrew installed until yesterday and no
openssl through homebrew.

OpenSSL 0.9.8zh 14 Jan 2016

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