Do a fire and forget web request using PowerShell

Question

For a webrequest in PowerShell I use

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://www.it-takes-long.de' -UseBasicParsing

Is there a way to do a webrequest in a fire and forget way?

I call the url to warm up a web from my build server and I would rather continue to the next step and not wait for the web to start up.

Answer 1

Just put the invoke into a job using the Start-Job cmdlet:

Start-Job -ScriptBlock {Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://www.it-takes-long.de' -UseBasicParsing}