Configuring cron for HTTP authentication

If HTTP authentication is forced, cron jobs will need to authenticate themselves. See Configuring cron jobs for more details on configuring cron jobs. These examples show how to add a user name and password (note: Lynx does not support digest authentication):

45 * * * * /usr/bin/lynx -auth=username:password -source http://example.com/cron.php

45 * * * * /usr/bin/wget --user=username --password=password -O - -q http://example.com/cron.php

45 * * * * /usr/bin/curl --anyauth --user username:password --silent --compressed http://example.com/cron.php