How to authenticate when using SimpleXML

[Andrew Taylor]

Hi,

I've got an RSS feed I'd like to consume from our Sharepoint server.
When I try:

$xml = simplexml_load_ file($url);

I get

failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

This is understandable as I need to specify a username and password to
access the RSS. How can I do this with SimpleXML, or, should I first
call the URL with cURL and work with the stream locally?

I thought there may be some global params I could set for the stream
handling library of PHP.

Thanks

Andrew

[Rik]

Re: How to authenticate when using SimpleXML

Andrew <Taylorwrote:

Hi,
>
I've got an RSS feed I'd like to consume from our Sharepoint server.
When I try:
>
$xml = simplexml_load_ file($url);
>
I get
>
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
>
This is understandable as I need to specify a username and password to
access the RSS. How can I do this with SimpleXML, or, should I first
call the URL with cURL and work with the stream locally?

Would be a solution, or if it's basic HTTP authentication you can use it
in the URL like http://username:password@example.com/rss.xml. cURL might
be a bit heavy for it, using fsockopen() could also be made to work.

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