Cache warming script for pre iis 7.5

warmup.ps1

<#

.SYNOPSIS
This is a powershell script to ping a website and log the response

.DESCRIPTION
The script will send a web request to the site specified in the parameters, and log to the file specified in the parameters (if any)

.EXAMPLE
./api.warmup.ps1 -url http://api.mysite.com/ -logFile logfile.txt

.NOTES
logfile is optional.

#>

[CmdletBinding()]
Param(
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$True,Position=1)]
    [string]$url, 
    
    [Parameter(Mandatory=$False,Position=2)]
    [string]$logFile
)

[net.httpWebRequest] $req = [net.webRequest]::create($url)
$req.Method = "HEAD"

[net.httpWebResponse] $res = $req.getResponse()

if ($logFile -ne "") {
    $date = Get-Date
    if ($res.StatusCode -ge "200") {
        $date.ToString() + " : " + $url + " : Response OK" >> $logFile
    } else {
        $date.ToString() + " : " + $url + " : Response Error : " + $res.StatusCode + " " + $res.StatusDescription >> $logFile
    }
}