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Old January 15th 19, 09:15 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mike
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

The root problem is that the FREEDNS updater doesn't work in windows 10.

I can check and update the URL to Dynamic IP address map directly with:

http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/up...j-REDACTED-DA0

The browser gives me indication of the current external IP address
and whether it has changed.

I'd like to do it on a schedule.

In task scheduler, I just put that whole line in the action box.
When it runs, it pops up a box asking which web browser I want.
I have Opera set as the default browser...it recognizes that, but
still asks for comfirmation. It does what I want except for the
manual intervention required to select the browser.

If I put "C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe" in the program box
and the above line in the arguments line, the page opens, but the
scheduled task stays running after I close the page...and the browser.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I found this:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Fre...ows-10-x32x64/

install MS C++ 2015 redistributable x64
Run 64bit updater
put the direct link URL in the config file.

but it gives me a "connection refused" message in scheduled tasks.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++
I took a quick look at wget and curl, but there's gotta be an easier
way.
I plan to do this only once.

How do I run the above http... on a schedule and terminate the
process when done? Ideally, it would update silently in the
background.
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  #2  
Old January 15th 19, 04:21 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

Mike wrote:
How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

The root problem is that the FREEDNS updater doesn't work in windows 10.

I can check and update the URL to Dynamic IP address map directly with:

http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/up...j-REDACTED-DA0

The browser gives me indication of the current external IP address
and whether it has changed.

I'd like to do it on a schedule.

In task scheduler, I just put that whole line in the action box.
When it runs, it pops up a box asking which web browser I want.
I have Opera set as the default browser...it recognizes that, but
still asks for comfirmation. It does what I want except for the
manual intervention required to select the browser.

If I put "C:\Program Files\Opera\launcher.exe" in the program box
and the above line in the arguments line, the page opens, but the
scheduled task stays running after I close the page...and the browser.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I found this:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Fre...ows-10-x32x64/


install MS C++ 2015 redistributable x64
Run 64bit updater
put the direct link URL in the config file.

but it gives me a "connection refused" message in scheduled tasks.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++
I took a quick look at wget and curl, but there's gotta be an easier
way.
I plan to do this only once.

How do I run the above http... on a schedule and terminate the
process when done? Ideally, it would update silently in the
background.


Have you set an "account" for the scheduled task ?

The browser "profile" folder is related to some user account.

By default, Task Scheduler runs a task as SYSTEM, which
might not be desired in this case.

You can try changing the scheduled task to USERNAME account,
then run

firefox URL

kind of thing.

At a guess,
Paul
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Old January 15th 19, 04:25 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_6_]
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

Mike wrote:

I can check and update the URL to Dynamic IP address map directly with:
http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/up...j-REDACTED-DA0

The browser gives me indication of the current external IP address
and whether it has changed.
I'd like to do it on a schedule.


Win10 comes with curl.exe nowadays, try using that?
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Old January 16th 19, 06:06 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mike
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

On 1/15/2019 7:25 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Mike wrote:

I can check and update the URL to Dynamic IP address map directly
with: http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/up...j-REDACTED-DA0

The browser gives me indication of the current external IP address
and whether it has changed.
I'd like to do it on a schedule.


Win10 comes with curl.exe nowadays, try using that?




curl didn't make any difference.

Use task scheduler to update daily at some time.
In the command box put cmd
In the arguments box put /K curl
http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/up...jQ1MjJREDACTED

The command window opens and displays the correct information.
I close the window and go back to task manager.
The task is still running.

This is the log entry. I truncated some GUID to make it fit.

Information 1/15/2019 7:57:10 PM 102 Task completed (2)
Information 1/15/2019 7:57:10 PM 201 Action completed (2)
Information 1/15/2019 7:55:00 PM 200 Action started (1)
Information 1/15/2019 7:55:00 PM 100 Task Started (1)
Information 1/15/2019 7:55:00 PM 129 Created Task Process
Information 1/15/2019 7:55:00 PM 107 Task triggered on
scheduler Info 789a68bd-a86f-419f-97d0-23c5217e08e9


But the main task scheduler window says that the task status is RUNNING.
If I let it run, it won't run again tomorrow unless I uncheck the box to
allow it.
Then, won't it just keep stacking up running instances?

I tried running the cmd without the /K entry previously and it made no
difference
in the running status.

I found lots of people on the web with the problem, but no solutions.

I'm trying to limit testing this because they get excited and shut you
down if you run the update too often. I set it to stop the task if
it runs longer than an hour. I'll find out if that helped tomorrow;
but it seems like a band-aid to cover something I did wrong in the setup.

What do I do to get the task back to READY status?
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Old January 16th 19, 06:25 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

Mike wrote:
On 1/15/2019 7:25 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Mike wrote:

I can check and update the URL to Dynamic IP address map directly
with: http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/up...j-REDACTED-DA0

The browser gives me indication of the current external IP address
and whether it has changed.
I'd like to do it on a schedule.


Win10 comes with curl.exe nowadays, try using that?




curl didn't make any difference.

Use task scheduler to update daily at some time.
In the command box put cmd
In the arguments box put /K curl
http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/up...jQ1MjJREDACTED

The command window opens and displays the correct information.
I close the window and go back to task manager.
The task is still running.

This is the log entry. I truncated some GUID to make it fit.

Information 1/15/2019 7:57:10 PM 102 Task completed (2)
Information 1/15/2019 7:57:10 PM 201 Action completed (2)
Information 1/15/2019 7:55:00 PM 200 Action started (1)
Information 1/15/2019 7:55:00 PM 100 Task Started (1)
Information 1/15/2019 7:55:00 PM 129 Created Task Process
Information 1/15/2019 7:55:00 PM 107 Task triggered on
scheduler Info 789a68bd-a86f-419f-97d0-23c5217e08e9


But the main task scheduler window says that the task status is RUNNING.
If I let it run, it won't run again tomorrow unless I uncheck the box to
allow it.
Then, won't it just keep stacking up running instances?

I tried running the cmd without the /K entry previously and it made no
difference
in the running status.

I found lots of people on the web with the problem, but no solutions.

I'm trying to limit testing this because they get excited and shut you
down if you run the update too often. I set it to stop the task if
it runs longer than an hour. I'll find out if that helped tomorrow;
but it seems like a band-aid to cover something I did wrong in the setup.

What do I do to get the task back to READY status?


If you are keeping the command open, is this because you want
to watch the interactive output ? The /k suggests you're
keeping that cmd.exe instance open or something.

In the example here, they use "-v" for verbose output.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...indows-console

curl -v google.com
* About to connect() to google.com port 80 (#0)
* Trying 173.194.35.105...
* connected
* Connected to google.com (173.194.35.105) port 80 (#0)
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.28.1
Host: google.com
Accept: */*

...
* Closing connection #0

Maybe there's some hint there as to whether the thing
is trying to "keepalive" the connection ?

Paul
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Old January 16th 19, 09:14 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_6_]
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

Mike wrote:

But the main task scheduler window says that the task status is RUNNING.


Press F5 to refresh the task list, it never does so for itself.
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Old January 16th 19, 09:40 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mike
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

On 1/16/2019 12:14 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Mike wrote:

But the main task scheduler window says that the task status is RUNNING.


Press F5 to refresh the task list, it never does so for itself.

I can try that, but I did close and reopen task scheduler.
Shouldn't that do it?
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Old January 16th 19, 09:54 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mike
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

On 1/16/2019 12:40 AM, Mike wrote:
On 1/16/2019 12:14 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Mike wrote:

But the main task scheduler window says that the task status is RUNNING.


Press F5 to refresh the task list, it never does so for itself.

I can try that, but I did close and reopen task scheduler.
Shouldn't that do it?

Well, dang if F5 didn't do it.
No clue why restarting the task scheduler wasn't doing it.
I guess I'm good to go.
Thanks for the tips.
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Old January 16th 19, 09:57 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Andy Burns[_6_]
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

Mike wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Press F5 to refresh the task list, it never does so for itself.


I can try that, but I did close and reopen task scheduler.
Shouldn't that do it?


Yes it should, just that I've seen several people get confused when the
status automatically changes from "ready" to "running", when they run a
task, but surprised it doesn't change back when the task completes.

If you run CMD /K you'd expect the process not to die, try CMD /C
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Old January 16th 19, 10:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mike
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Default How do I access a webpage in task scheduler?

On 1/16/2019 12:57 AM, Andy Burns wrote:
Mike wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

Press F5 to refresh the task list, it never does so for itself.


I can try that, but I did close and reopen task scheduler.
Shouldn't that do it?


Yes it should, just that I've seen several people get confused when the
status automatically changes from "ready" to "running", when they run a
task, but surprised it doesn't change back when the task completes.

If you run CMD /K you'd expect the process not to die, try CMD /C

But what about after I closed the window?
The only reason the /K is there is for diagnostic purposes.
Another confusing quirk about this site is that the
response is, "Error the address did not change."
So the diagnostic line in the task manager window is "error"
even though the response was exactly what was expected.
Thanks for your patience getting me unstuck.
 




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