How to code this powershell?

Question

Referring to following coding, I would like to know on how to setup security properly for downloading file, it seems that Tls12 is not working

Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

$url = "https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/stat/dmstat/dayrpt/dqe221206.zip"
$file = "D:\ABC.zip"
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = 'Tls12'
Invoke-WebRequest $url -OutFile $file
catch [System.Exception] {
$httpStatus = $null
$tryError = $_.Exception
$urlIsValid = $false;
Write-Host "There was an error downloading $file"

Answer 1

This worked for me:

$url = "https://www.hkex.com.hk/eng/stat/dmstat/dayrpt/dqe221206.zip"  
$file = "D:\ABC.zip"  
[System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12  
try {  
	Invoke-WebRequest $url -OutFile $file -ErrorAction Stop  
}  
catch [System.Exception] {  
	$httpStatus = $null  
	$tryError = $_.Exception  
	$urlIsValid = $false;  
	Write-Host "There was an error downloading $file"  
}  

Answer 2

The 1st four lines of your code work just fine.

What exception was thrown? Was the exception caught by your Catch block? If it wasn't, try removing the "[System.Exception]" from the Catch. I'd also try adding "-ErrorAction STOP" to the Invoke-WebRequest.

Answer 3

Please see following error message.
Could you please show on where to add "-ErrorAction STOP" to the Invoke-WebRequest.

Do you have any suggestions?
Thank you very much for any suggestions (^v^)

Error Message

Invoke-WebRequest : The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel.

• Invoke-WebRequest $url -OutFile $file
• ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
• CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke=WebRequest],WebException
• FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdLetWebReqsponseException.Microsoft.Powershell.CommadsInvokeRequestCommand

Answer 4

Try changing line #3 of your script to: [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

The literal "Tls12" is a reference to a value in an enumeration, not a literal value you can store as a security protocol. The type returned by [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12 is an object of type "System.Net.SecurityProtocolType". If you examine the "value__" property of that object you'll find it's 3072.