Does FastCron follow redirection?

Yes, FastCron follows HTTP redirection (with HTTP status code 301, 302, 307, or 308).

This feature helps in these cases:

• You changed the script URL with redirection.
• The cron script needs to split into several steps (e.g. Akeeba backup).

If you’re using PHP, you should use header and exit to redirect your script:

// don't print/echo any output before this

header('Location: /new/url.php?next=200');
exit;

FastCron will not follow parse the HTML or run JavaScript, so these won’t work:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/new/url.html">

<script>
    window.location = '/new/url.html';
</script>