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#33020 Allowing wget only on specific pages?

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Latest post by on Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:17 CDT

Monday, 11 May 2020 02:21 CDT

jorlan
Hi,

On one our our sites we need to run a 'wget' cron job. By default, AdminTools is blocking 'wget' and I understand that this is better for our safety, yet sometimes it could be handy to use it.

Now I know that I can allow wget by removing it from the Agents to Block list, but it seems to me that will enable it globally for the site. Wouldn't it be possible to allow it for specific urls only?

Kind regards

Monday, 11 May 2020 03:39 CDT

tampe125
Hello,

how do you trigger the WGET command?
If you can modify the command before launching it, you can replace default WGET User Agent (which is blocked) with something else (anything, actually) and it will work.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

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Monday, 11 May 2020 04:58 CDT

jorlan
Hello Davide,

Thanks for your reply. Do you mean replacing wget with somthing like curl, as in this example?

https://serverfault.com/questions/299287/how-do-i-use-curl-in-a-cron-job


Kind regards

Monday, 11 May 2020 05:02 CDT

tampe125
No, most likely you're using wget in this way:

wget www.example.com/somepage


replace it with 

wget --user-agent="Mozilla Firefox" www.example.com/somepage


In this way Admin Tools won't block your request.

Davide Tampellini

Developer and Support Staff

🇮🇹Italian: native 🇬🇧English: good • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Rome (UTC +1)
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Monday, 11 May 2020 05:14 CDT

jorlan
I see, I had no idea that this would work.

I'll give it a try,

Thank you!

Wednesday, 10 June 2020 17:17 CDT

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