Do cron jobs support http basic auth

Spocker

Hello

I have a cron job setup in a shared hosting account (Linux Minimus) like so:

[font=Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif]/usr/bin/wget http://<username>:<password>@www.website.ie/admin/send_email.php[/font]


[font=Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif]- the admin directory has http basic auth (using a .htaccess file) but the job doesn't run - I can call the same url externally and I receive the mail no problem.[/font]


[font=Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif]I also tried setting it up as a Scheduled Application, but must supply the login credentials in the fields, not the URL - How are the 'username' and 'password' passed in the URL when it's a 'Scheduled Application'?[/font]


[font=Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif]Thanks[/font]

mneylon

Please contact our helpdesk directly and they might be able to assist: https://www.blacknight.com/support.html

Spocker

Got my answer from the helpful support team

Wget is disabled, I was directed to use cURL instead, which worked for me - thanks!

mneylon

Glad to hear they were able to assist you

I *think* we had to disable access to wget due to security issues