Rest client for powershell 2.0 and above
Example:
####GET
Invoke-RestMethod20 -Method GET -Uri "http://httpbin.org/ip"####POST
$body = @{Data = "some post data"} | ConvertTo-Json20
Invoke-RestMethod20 -Method POST -Uri "http://httpbin.org/post" -Body $body####PUT
$body = @{User = "username"; Password = "password"} | ConvertTo-Json20
Invoke-RestMethod20 -Method PUT -Uri "http://httpbin.org/put" -Body $body -asJson