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Description of my issue:

I am testing out Akeeba Backup with WebCron.org as our ISP is stooping support for CRON jobs

I have an account with WebCron and credit. 

When I test the Web Cron job it fails with 302 error explanation below.

I have copied the link from my Akeeba settings and set timeout  to 180 as recommended.

Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

The requested resource resides temporarily under a different URI. Since the redirection might be altered on occasion, the client SHOULD continue to use the Request-URI for future requests. This response is only cacheable if indicated by a Cache-Control or Expires header field.

The temporary URI SHOULD be given by the Location field in the response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity of the response SHOULD contain a short hypertext note with a hyperlink to the new URI(s).

If the 302 status code is received in response to a request other than GET or HEAD, the user agent MUST NOT automatically redirect the request unless it can be confirmed by the user, since this might change the conditions under which the request was issued.

      Note: RFC 1945 and RFC 2068 specify that the client is not allowed
      to change the method on the redirected request.  However, most
      existing user agent implementations treat 302 as if it were a 303
      response, performing a GET on the Location field-value regardless
      of the original request method. The status codes 303 and 307 have
      been added for servers that wish to make unambiguously clear which
      kind of reaction is expected of the client.

OK, Will do. Please leave this ticket open and I will report back on what WebCRON Support have to say.

Hi Nicholas,

Here is the answer I received from WebCron Support

"I had a look at your cron task and I have checked the last call log for this task.

 The webcron error code is 928 for this call which means that the backup script did not return within the selected timeout (180 seconds).  You may want to try the timeout just above (600 seconds) and check if the backup script returns within this new time frame."   So, I changed the default timeout from 180 to 600. This resolved the problem - See screen shot   Kind regards David  

Screen shot attached

Ok , great...closing this ticket now