htpasswd and cron job

**JSlime** · 03-29-2004, 02:39 PM

How would l set up my cron job, on a file that is htpasswd protected, if it's at all possible. Thanks

Cron output:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>401 Authorization Required</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Authorization Required</H1>
This server could not verify that you
are authorized to access the document
requested.  Either you supplied the wrong
credentials (e.g., bad password), or your
browser doesn't understand how to supply
the credentials required.<P>
<P>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.29 Server at www.tdtcoalition.net Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>

~JSlime

**jason** · 03-29-2004, 03:00 PM

Try using http://username:password@www.whatever.com as the URL that you pass to cron. Alternatively, code your script so that it doesn't need to be called via a URL. CRON was designed to run programs that reside locally on a computer, not to fetch web pages. With what's probably a few simple changes to the script you won't have to call it by URL so you won't have to have it in a web-accessible location, and you won't have to worry about password protecting it.

--Jason

**JSlime** · 03-29-2004, 08:42 PM

Thanks once again Jason...

To be honest with you, I'm not exactly sure what changes l would need to make to make my script work in the way that you're talking about. I have faith in the htpasswd protection.

~JSlime

**JSlime** · 03-29-2004, 09:17 PM

One other quick cron question...

Can l put multiple e-mail addresses in the cron output box, and seperate them by a coma?

~JSlime

**JPC-Masood** · 03-30-2004, 08:59 AM

You can use wget with password to access a password protected script. e.g.

/usr/bin/wget --http-user=masood --http-passwd=masood --output-document=/home/masood/cron/test.txt http://some_password_protected_.....php

(all in one line)

For emails, yes you can try using comma separated emails. I believe it should work. Or you can try emailing from within the script.

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