This tools is for warming up (waking up) SharePoint sites through an HTTP Get call to all the sites and subwebs of a SharePoint Web Application.
There are other tools and scripts available but this one addresses the issue of a 403 forbidden error when the SharePoint web app is in claims mode and FBA.
It uses Windows authentication to warm up the sites and bypasses the FBA login redirection causing the 403 forbidden error.
The tool uses a config file. this config file includes brief instructions on how to use the tool.
This tool can be used in either Classic Mode Authentication, Claims Based Authentication or Claims Based Authentication + FBA
It does not use the FBA authentication to warm up the sites for the moment. A future release will include authentication choice in the config file.
If you create a Scheduled task for this tool be sure to specifiy the "start in" path for the config file to be processed.
"webappurls" value = "all" to warmup all farm including central admin
or separate urls separated by a comma : example : http://webapp01.mydomain.com,http://webapp02.mydomain.com,http://webapp02.mydomain.com
"logfile" value = "true" to create a log file"
false to warm up without log file
logfile should be used in case of errors only to prevent filling up disk space.