title: How do I hit a URL daily with PHP or Perl as a scheduled task in Plesk?
body: <p>I am using shared hosting on Windows. I need to run some code that will basically just hit a URL on my .NET site once a day.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using Plesk. I have seen that I can create scheduled tasks in Plesk, but when I asked my hosting service provider they said I can only execute PHP or Perl scripts (and not Windows executables).</p>
  
  <p>I have zero experience in PHP and Perl. How can I do this using either Perl or PHP? Are there any gotchas? Do i need to set anything else up on my server to run these scripts, or is it just a case of dropping these <code>.php</code> or <code>.perl</code> files somewhere?</p>