Test URL in PowerShell

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## Test-Uri
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## From Windows PowerShell Cookbook (O'Reilly)
## by Lee Holmes (http://www.leeholmes.com/guide)
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<#

.SYNOPSIS

Connects to a given URI and returns status about it: URI, response code,
and time taken.

.EXAMPLE

PS > Test-Uri bing.com

Uri               : bing.com
StatusCode        : 200
StatusDescription : OK
ResponseLength    : 34001
TimeTaken         : 459.0009

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param(
    ## The URI to test
    $Uri
)

$request = $null
$time = try
{
    ## Request the URI, and measure how long the response took.
	$result = Measure-Command { $request = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $uri }
    $result.TotalMilliseconds
}
catch
{
    ## If the request generated an exception (i.e.: 500 server
    ## error or 404 not found), we can pull the status code from the
    ## Exception.Response property
    $request = $_.Exception.Response
    $time = -1
}

$result = [PSCustomObject] @{
    Time = Get-Date;
    Uri = $uri;
    StatusCode = [int] $request.StatusCode;
    StatusDescription = $request.StatusDescription;
    ResponseLength = $request.RawContentLength;
    TimeTaken = $time;
}

$result