User WinWget to keep web site alive in a Windows Server 2003

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Published on 2014-05-30T08:57:50Z Indexed on 2014/05/30 9:29 UTC
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I have a site that must stay alive due to a service that runs and check a directory for changes.

The site is running in IIS at a Windows Server 2003 and the solution I came up it that I will Schedule a task that requests the home page every 5 minutes. I am sure that this way the site will stay alive almost all the time.

I have downloaded Wget from Wget from Windows and I have installed it at my windows server 2003 but I don't know how to use it in order to ping the server but not download anything.

Since I want to use this forever I don't want to save anything on the disk, can you provide me with the command that pings a web page but don't save anything on the disk?

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