Lynx replacement for crontab

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Shendemiar
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Lynx replacement for crontab

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I used this with my crontab

/usr/local/bin/lynx -auth=XXXX:YYYY -dump http://www.some.com/aaa.bbb/a.php

Now my new host don't have lynx, what else could i use to trigger that page?
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Post by Benjamin »

wget
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Post by feyd »

curl too. Heck.. PHP could do it, provided the proper settings were in place.
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Post by Shendemiar »

Thanks, wget seems to be restricted but i can use curl.
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