run a batch script to visit a website every hour

rgb192,

You may use wget for windows : http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

Regards.

Please explain a little more - what URL?  Is it on your server or another?  Which server has Windows?

Use curl to do this.
Download curl:-
http://www.gknw.net/mirror/curl/win32/curl-7.19.7-ssl-sspi-zlib-static-bin-w32.zip



Now, create a batch file:-

C:\Path_to_curl\curl.exe http://www.google.com/
 
 Now use task schedular to run the batch file every hour
 
 That's it.

using windows

url on my server or another server

Do you want to do this in PHP?

php would make it easier because i know php

WGET is one of the most used command on linux to download page and files.
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm

In a batch, you just need to put :

wget http://www.yousiteaddress.com/thepage.php

OK, I know Linux, and not much about Windows, but I think you are on the right path with the task scheduler.

Here is a script that will do the /GET interaction with a URL.  It can have arguments, etc.  It will retrieve any browser output that the site produces (HTML).  If you use this with the task scheduler, it will be almost like typing the url into your browser.

best regards, ~Ray

<?php // RAY_curl_example.php
error_reporting(E_ALL);

function my_curl($url)
{
    $curl = curl_init();

// HEADERS FROM FIREFOX - APPEARS TO BE A BROWSER REFERRED BY GOOGLE

    $header[] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";
    $header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0";
    $header[] = "Connection: keep-alive";
    $header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300";
    $header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";
    $header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5";
    $header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank.

    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate');
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); // GIVE UP AFTER THREE SECONDS

    if (!$html = curl_exec($curl))
    {
        return FALSE;
    }

    curl_close($curl);
    return $html;
}

// USAGE EXAMPLE
$url = 'http://twitter.com';
$htm = my_curl($url);
if (!$htm) die("NO $url");

echo "<pre>";
echo htmlentities($htm);

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only loops once


could i put a
while (no key pressed)

and a sleep 36000

and have this loop all day

would php time out

<?php // RAY_curl_example.php 
error_reporting(E_ALL); 



// USAGE EXAMPLE 
$url = 'http://twitter.com'; 
$htm = my_curl($url); 
//if (!$htm) die("NO $url"); 
 
echo "<pre>"; 
echo htmlentities($htm);
 
function my_curl($url) 
{ 
    $curl = curl_init(); 
 
// HEADERS FROM FIREFOX - APPEARS TO BE A BROWSER REFERRED BY GOOGLE 
 
    $header[] = "Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5"; 
    $header[] = "Cache-Control: max-age=0"; 
    $header[] = "Connection: keep-alive"; 
    $header[] = "Keep-Alive: 300"; 
    $header[] = "Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"; 
    $header[] = "Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5"; 
    $header[] = "Pragma: "; // browsers keep this blank. 
 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url); 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.15) Gecko/20080623 Firefox/2.0.0.15'); 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_REFERER, 'http://www.google.com'); 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip,deflate'); 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, true); 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 3); // GIVE UP AFTER THREE SECONDS 
 
    if (!$html = curl_exec($curl)) 
    { 
        return FALSE; 
    } 
 
    curl_close($curl); 
    return $html; 
} 
 
?>

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works

Great!  Thanks for the points, ~Ray