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]

Re: Basic Authentication

Andrew wrote:[color=blue]
> 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.
>[/color]

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, "Authorizat ion: basic
".base64_encode ("login:passwor d")."\r\n\r\n") ;

fpassthru($fp);


JW

[Janwillem Borleffs]

Re: Basic Authentication

Janwillem Borleffs wrote:[color=blue]
> fputs($fp, "Authorizat ion: basic
> ".base64_encode ("login:passwor d")."\r\n\r\n") ;
>[/color]

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

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


JW

[Andrew]

Re: Basic Authentication

[color=blue]
> 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, "Authorizat ion: basic
> ".base64_encode ("login:passwor d")."\r\n\r\n") ;
>
> fpassthru($fp);[/color]

Thanks for the info.

I have a couple more questions:

1. Is required to send the realm?

2. I want to use ImageCreateFrom JPEG(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]

Re: Basic Authentication

Andrew wrote:[color=blue]
> 1. Is required to send the realm?
>[/color]

Only its type, in this case 'basic'.
[color=blue]
> 2. I want to use ImageCreateFrom JPEG(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?
>[/color]

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


JW

[Chung Leong]

Re: Basic Authentication

"Andrew" <andrew@nowhere nohow.com> wrote in message
news:lCvKc.7162 $Qu5.5856@newsr ead2.news.pas.e arthlink.net...[color=blue]
> 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
>[/color]

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.