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Interesting idea...however, in my case I keep most of my crons in a directory not accessible through a browser, so that someone can't accidentally come across and run one manually. Am I the only one that does this? I also have crons that run to perform maintenance/clean-up and backup on files/databases (either daily or weekly) and it sound like this service wouldn't work in that case, unless the scripts were changed to a server-side language like PHP and then put in a publicly accessible directory.


You can use basic auth to protect your scripts from anyone who shouldn't access them. eg

http://user:pass@example.com/script




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