Chef/Modernize/PowershellDownloadFile

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The Cookstyle cops department: Chef/Modernize

Use the remote_file resource to download files instead of shelling out to PowerShell. remote_file is idempotent, supports checksum verification, proxies, and conditional downloads with etags and last-modified headers, none of which a script gets for free.

Examples

# bad
powershell_script 'download the installer' do
  code 'Invoke-WebRequest -Uri https://example.com/foo.msi -OutFile C:\foo.msi'
end

# good
remote_file 'C:\foo.msi' do
  source 'https://example.com/foo.msi'
end

Configurable attributes