Easy Way to Call cURL from cron on Another Host?

Have got cron support on one of my hosts, but no cURL. Then on the other host I've got cURL, but no immediate access to cron. Is there an easy way to use some script or utility on the cron-enabled host (probably in a crontab file, right?) on the one host to automatically call cURL on the other at specified times?

Have got PHP and Perl access on both hosts, although I don't think the cron-enabled host allows for CGI Perl access.

Am able to figure how to do the crontab file, but am stuck on how to call cURL on other host.

You don't need CGI access to run a perl script via cron. If you have perl on the cron enabled system, you can run a perl script.

It would be unusual for a host to offer PHP and not offer perl, I've never heard of this before.

You can install perl modules without root access, and it isn't difficult at all. Read the tutorial below, it's pretty much all you'll ever need to install perl modules anywhere.

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=128077

Please do not cross post:

http://forums.devshed.com/t50345/s.html

Thank you for the info and link, Hero Zzyzzx -- will check it out.

That one's not a commercial host, and while they DO have Perl, the CGI access seems to be disabled to encourage use of PHP (am guessing that as they haven't told me and I haven't asked about it either). I actually have a third host that doesn't have Perl access at all for that very reason (and because they feel PHP causes them less security problems, if I remember the rationale right).
Well excuse me, M.Hirsch, but the UNIX forum at first seemed the most logical choice for my thread. However, after posting it there, I realized how likely it was to go unanswered forever on such a DEAD board (only three other posts in last 30 days!).

And I don't see any delete buttons available ... if you're a mod, please feel free to delete the other post.

i am no mod. but "delete" is here:
click on "edit" of your first post, then check the box "delete" and press the button "delete".

as noone answered yet in "unix", you should delete that one. thank you.

thank you, M.Hirsch -- in the last vBulletin forum I frequented, that function was disabled and so never 'learned' it -- nice that it works here.