Basic Authentication

[Andrew]

I need to send a request from my server
running PHP to another server which is using
Basic Authentication.

How is this done?

I know the realm, username, and password.

Thanks,

Andrew

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Andrew wrote:

I need to send a request from my server
running PHP to another server which is using
Basic Authentication.

How is this done?

I know the realm, username, and password.

Basic realm authentication:

$fp = fsockopen("host.com", 80);
fputs($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: host.com\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Authorization: basic
".base64_encode("login:password")."\r\n\r\n");

fpassthru($fp);
JW

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:

fputs($fp, "Authorization: basic
".base64_encode("login:password")."\r\n\r\n");

Watch for newsreader line breaks, this header should be on one line:

fputs($fp,
"Authorization: basic " .
base64_encode("login:password") .
"\r\n\r\n"
);
JW

[Andrew]

Basic realm authentication:

$fp = fsockopen("host.com", 80);
fputs($fp, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Host: host.com\r\n");
fputs($fp, "Authorization: basic
".base64_encode("login:password")."\r\n\r\n");

fpassthru($fp);

Thanks for the info.

I have a couple more questions:

1. Is required to send the realm?

2. I want to use ImageCreateFromJPEG(URL)
to grab the image from the password protected
server. Can I use the authentication code above
to "unlock" the server then just call this function?

Regards,

Andrew

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Andrew wrote:

1. Is required to send the realm?

Only its type, in this case 'basic'.
2. I want to use ImageCreateFromJPEG(URL)
to grab the image from the password protected
server. Can I use the authentication code above
to "unlock" the server then just call this function?

No, you will first have to retrieve the image data and store it in a
variable or a temporary file before you call the imagecreatefromjpeg()
function.
JW

[Chung Leong]

"Andrew" <an****@nowherenohow.com> wrote in message
news:lC*****************@newsread2.news.pas.earthl ink.net...

I need to send a request from my server
running PHP to another server which is using
Basic Authentication.

How is this done?

I know the realm, username, and password.

Thanks,

Andrew

The cleanest way is to use stream_context_create() to create a HTTP context
for POST, then pass the context to fopen(). This method requires a fairly
up-to-date version of PHP, however.