TeamCity Call Url Build Step

Question

I am using TeamCity to build and deploy files onto a IIS website using Web Deploy 3.

I would like to add a step to call a url when done so that the custom cache can be r

Answer 1

I would solve this using a command line script that hits the url, and one of TeamCity's command line runners.

The question is tagged asp.net so I assume you're on Windows. Put this Get-WebFile script in a Powershell Build Runner. Then call Get-WebFile "http://yourwebapp.net/" at the bottom.

Answer 2

An even simpler method would be the same Powershell buildrunner step, but just use:

(New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString("http://yourwebapp.net");.

No dependencies on other scripts, just native Powershell. Anything wrong with that?

Answer 3

A newer, cleaner, just-as-simple method would be also using Powershell:

wget "http://yourwebapp.net"

wget is an alias for Invoke-WebRequest, supporting more options like settings the request timeout.

Full docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/invoke-webrequest?view=powershell-6

NB: On older environments you may want to set -UseBasicParsing to prevent parsing errors.