Cron settings for Drupal on hostgator.com
Here is a working format for Drupal Cron tasks on hostgator.com. After much hunting around, as one often has to do, I have found a working format. It's a shame the host's help files are not more forthcoming with this information. I had to trawl through lots of forum posts to find this.
POST http://www.yourdomain.com/cron.php /dev/null
I strongly recommend that you rename your cron.php file, or else anyone can run it.
Apparently curl is not enabled by default on user accounts and must have a request submited. We'll see how long it takes to have that issue settled. Even so, one of my sites has nothing but RSS feeds which need to be updated every 15 minutes. Without your post I would have waited 12+ hours for a resolution. Hooray!
Thanks, this seems to work.
After many, many failed tries with other format this one actually worked for me on HostGator. Thanks very much for posting this!