Right now when setting up basic cron job with the type selection curl, the URL does not accept open and closing quotes that have an ampersand sign. I was having issues running basic cron jobs because the URL that had an ampersand sign, it escaped everything after that.

For example:
In the below URL when the basic cron job is setup, it escapes everything after &.
http://example.com/pages/link?id=1&name=josh