lynx and crontab - PHP

Info: Lynx has nothing to do with supporting or not supporting PHP. PHP is
not a client side language, it is a server side language, so the browser
that you use does not even know or need to know that it is running PHP.
Solutions (hopefully): Take out the space between the "-" and the word
"dump". Your command should be:
lynx -dump http://www.mysite.com/test.php

Steve

At 01:11 PM 10/15/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>my isp lets me control crontab so i've been trying to
>run a php script every 30 mins.
>
>the command is like this:
>lynx - dump http://www.mysite.com/test.php
>
>which gives the error
>
>lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
>
>what do i telll my isp to do to get lynx to supprt .php files?
>(i get a better response from them if i tell them exactly what to do ;-) )



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ow3

shouldn't be it lynx -dump ... ?

adrian murphy wrote:

>my isp lets me control crontab so i've been trying to
>run a php script every 30 mins.
>
>the command is like this:
>lynx - dump http://www.mysite.com/test.php
>
>which gives the error
>
>lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
>
>what do i telll my isp to do to get lynx to supprt .php files?
>(i get a better response from them if i tell them exactly what to do ;-) )
>
>tia
>adrian
>
>
>

The syntax I use for this purpose is either:
lynx -source "URL"
or
wget -q -O - "URL"
depending on whether lynx or wget are installed.

HTH

Bogdan

Adrian Murphy wrote:
> my isp lets me control crontab so i've been trying to
> run a php script every 30 mins.
>
> the command is like this:
> lynx - dump http://www.mysite.com/test.php
>
> which gives the error
>
> lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
>
> what do i telll my isp to do to get lynx to supprt .php files?
> (i get a better response from them if i tell them exactly what to do ;-) )
>
> tia
> adrian
>

I have a tutorial for using lynx to monitor a firewall.

http://frontiertech.ca/tutorial_web_page_monitor.php

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On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, adrian murphy wrote:

> my isp lets me control crontab so i've been trying to
> run a php script every 30 mins.
>
> the command is like this:
> lynx - dump http://www.mysite.com/test.php
>
> which gives the error
>
> lynx: Start file could not be found or is not text/html or text/plain
>
> what do i telll my isp to do to get lynx to supprt .php files?
> (i get a better response from them if i tell them exactly what to do ;-) )
>
> tia
> adrian
>