lynx cronjob called but HTTP request not sent

Question

I am running a cronjob every 30 minutes from my shared hosting to another of my ec2 server using the following command:-

0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx http://qwerty.com/crons/myCron.php

The cron job does run every 30 minutes based on the emails I am receiving from the Cron Daemon. But then the PHP file seems to be called sometimes only. I noticed that it's only successful when the HTTP request is sent in the Cron Daemon email I receive.

Examples are shown below:-

Unsuccessful Attempts

 Your Terminal type is unknown!

 Enter a terminal type: [vt100] 
TERMINAL TYPE IS SET TO vt100
(B)0[1;24r[m[?7h[?1h=[H[J[21B[0;7mGetting http://qwerty.com/crons/myCron.php[m
[0;7mLooking up qwerty.com[m[K
[0;7mMaking HTTP connection to qwerty.com[m

[24;1H
[?1l>

Successful Attempts

 Your Terminal type is unknown!

 Enter a terminal type: [vt100] 
TERMINAL TYPE IS SET TO vt100
(B)0[1;24r[m[?7h[?1h=[H[J[21B[0;7mGetting http://qwerty.com/crons/myCron.php[m
[0;7mLooking up qwerty.com[m[K
[0;7mMaking HTTP connection to qwerty.com[m
[0;7mSending HTTP request.[m             [22;22H
[0;7mHTTP request sent; waiting for response.[m

[24;1H
[?1l>

How can I make sure that the HTTP request is sent each time the cron daemon runs?

Answer 1

You could try forcing a dump however this will also dump all the HTML from the page.. Might not be applicable. -dump dumps the formatted output of the default document or one specified on the command line to standard out. Under UNIX this can be used in the following way:

lynx -dump http://qwerty.com/crons/myCron.php

Or

/usr/bin/lynx -mime_header -dump http://qwerty.com/crons/myCron.php

Alternatively you could try wget with several tries to ensure full response ..

/usr/bin/wget −r −−tries=10 http://qwerty.com/crons/myCron.php

Again you could try cURL :

curl http://qwerty.com/crons/myCron.php

Any of these options viable for you ?