Making a web request using powershell and reading response

## Sending a web request to a url and getting a response back.
$urlresponse = $null
$response = $null
[Net.ServicePointManager]::ServerCertificateValidationCallback = {$true}
$strURI = "https://www.bing.com"
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
$req = [Net.WebRequest]::CreateHttp($strURI)
$response = $req.GetResponse() ;
[System.IO.Stream]$datastream = $response.GetResponseStream()
$streamreader = New-Object  System.IO.StreamReader($datastream)
$urlresponse = $streamreader.ReadToEnd();
Write-Host $response.ProtocolVersion  -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-Host $req.servicepoint.certificate.GetExpirationDateString()  -ForegroundColor Yellow
Write-host $req.ServicePoint.Certificate.GetIssuerName()  -ForegroundColor Yellow
## Write-Host $urlresponse -ForegroundColor Yellow ## Should be commented if you expect the response to be too large
$response.Close() | Out-Null;