PowerShell TCP Socket Function

The PowerShell function example below can be used to transmit information using the TCP protocol. For example, to perform an HTTP GET command on a website.

function fnTCPSock([string]$sHostName, [string]$sPort, [string]$sScript) {
  # Converteer script string to byte for write stream...
  [byte[]]$byteScript = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes($($sScript))
  # Open 4096 Bytes buffer for read stream...
  [byte[]]$byteBuffer = New-Object System.Byte[] 16384
  
  # Connect to host...
  $oTCPSock = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient($sHostName, $sPort)
  $oStream = $oTCPSock.GetStream() 
  
  # Feed script(byte) tot write stream...
  $oStream.Write($byteScript, 0, $byteScript.Length)

  # Return read buffer converted to string...
  [string]$sCount = $oStream.Read($byteBuffer, 0, 16384)
  return [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetString($byteBuffer, 0, $sCount) 

  # Close objects...
  $oResult.Close()
  $oSockTCP.Close()
}

[string]$sScript1 = "GET / HTTP/1.1`r`nAccept: text/html`r`nHost: [virtualhostname]`r`nReferer: http://host.domain.name/site/`r`n`r`n`r`n"
[string]$sResult1 = fnTCPSock "hostname" "80" $($sScript1)