Using cron to request url

Hi all,

I've written a serverside Javascript application which has a page that needs to be called every 5 minutes to upate some info. I would like to use the agent in Netscape Enterprise server, but they removed this feature in version 4, which we are going to use in launch fase.

Normally I would write a small Perl script to be called with cron, but my employer doesn't want to support Perl . Now I've heard that you can request a url with cron directly somehow, but I don't know how. Can anybody help me?

Thanks Bas.

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Normally I would write a small Perl script to be called with cron, but my employer doesn't want to support Perl


I know how to do this in perl.. Tell me if you want perl solution for this...



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SR -
webshiju.com

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge..."

Hi Shiju,

I already have a script that does exactly this, but I'm not allowed to use it in the production environment, because they don't allow Perl to be used on the live systems. That's why I want to use that crontab. Thanks for your reply anyway.

Bas

Bas,

See the following discussion ...You may get some help from that...
http://www.devshed.com/Talk/Forums/...TML/000622.html


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SR -
webshiju.com

"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge..."

Shiju,

That was what I needed, thanks. For now I'll be using the lynx -dump url job.

Bas