Passing in URL as parameter in CLI

Hello. I'm using CI 3.0 as a backend only system to handle some tasks.

I'd like to run a few controllers with the CLI via cronjobs but I'm having an issue passing in a URL as a parameter. So my controller function looks something like this:

PHP Code:

runProcess($url) {
  //Do something with URL
  echo $url;
} 


but when I pass in a URL such as : 'https://aws.amazon.com/queues/1234/foo', I will only get the data before a forward slash. For example, running: 'php index.php Controller runProcess 'https://aws.amazon.com/queues/1234/foo' will echo 'https:'. If I remove the https from the original call it will return 'aws.amazon.com'.
Any ideas on how to pass in a full URL?