Does the HTTP output have to originate from the server with the draconian access restrictions?

Is the remote machine totally firewalled off? I know for mySQL (and most other databases) you can easily connect to the DB remotely, (for mySQL it's port 3306) meaning you can run the script on another machine with a crontab entry, and just connect/disconnect to the remote DB in the specified time period.

Another option- write your script on the remote machine to just report the results of the query, either in some XML format or pipe-delimited, and then ding that script periodically and parse the info out with LWP::Simple and split().

Here's an article from my personal site that does something similar to what I'm talking about above.

Good luck!

-Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from doubletalk.

In reply to Re: Scheduling tasks the _hard_ way by Hero Zzyzzx
in thread Scheduling tasks the _hard_ way by Yukio

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