Vista - Simple doubt

I want to open http://servername:2381 using powershell.

$servername=$args
#$colon=':'
#$port=2381
$fullpath=$servername+$colon+$port
$oIE=new-object -com internetexplorer.application
$oIE.navigate2("https://$fullpath")
$oIE.Visible=$true

But this doesn't work, it takes spaces...Need simple advice to achieve
it.

Thank you for your kind advice.
Preetam

so the first thing is you have the colon and port commented out..
is the other issue that the SERVERNAME has spaces in it?
i can't recall off the top of my head, but in System.Web there are
some utility functions specifically for URLs and encoding %20 etc

You are assigning $args to $servername. $args is one of PowerShell's
automatic variables and it will contain unassigned parameters passed to a
function or a script.
Assign 'servername:2381' instead:

$servername='servername:2381'
#$colon=':'
#$port=2381
$fullpath=$servername+$colon+$port
$oIE=new-object -com internetexplorer.application
$oIE.navigate2("https://$fullpath")
$oIE.Visible=$true

....or this way:

$server name='server name'
$colon=':'
$port=2381
$full path=$servername+$colon+$port
$oIE=new-object -com internetexplorer.application
$oIE.navigate2("https://$fullpath")
$oIE.Visible=$true

If you want to read about automatic variables:

help about_automatic_variables

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Kiron

Typo on the second option:

$servername='server name'

....should be:

$servername='servername'
$colon=':'
$port=2381
$fullpath=$servername+$colon+$port
$oIE=new-object -com internetexplorer.application
$oIE.navigate2("https://$fullpath")
$oIE.Visible=$true

Sorry.

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Kiron