Basic authentication without CURL

[Erwin Moller]

Hi all,

I want to create an URL to use with fopen($url).
The URL needs basic authentication, but I have no CURL on this
particular machine.
(I need to access an app that uses REST.)

I tried to use the URLwrappers for fopen, but to no avail.

Samplecode:

$protocol = "http://";
$url = "www.example.co m/administration/webstatistics";
$username = "bla";
$password = "mypass";
$authURL = $protocol.$user name.":".$passw ord."@".$url;
$content = file_get_conten ts($authURL,'r' );
etc.

Warning: file_get_conten ts(): HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401
Authorization Required in <removed>/rest.php on line 16

I know this was a shot in the dark, but that kind of URL works from my
browser, so I thought I give it a shot. Bad luck. :-(

Does anybody know if this is possible using simply fopen?

I have been reading through the streampages on php.net, but that is kind
of overwhelming to grasps right away. Working on it now.

Any advise?

Regards,
Erwin Moller

[Erwin Moller]

[solved] Re: Basic authentication without CURL

Erwin Moller schreef:

Hi all,
>
I want to create an URL to use with fopen($url).
The URL needs basic authentication, but I have no CURL on this
particular machine.
(I need to access an app that uses REST.)
>
I tried to use the URLwrappers for fopen, but to no avail.
>
Samplecode:
>
$protocol = "http://";
$url = "www.example.co m/administration/webstatistics";
$username = "bla";
$password = "mypass";
$authURL = $protocol.$user name.":".$passw ord."@".$url;
$content = file_get_conten ts($authURL,'r' );
etc.
>
Warning: file_get_conten ts(): HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401
Authorization Required in <removed>/rest.php on line 16
>
I know this was a shot in the dark, but that kind of URL works from my
browser, so I thought I give it a shot. Bad luck. :-(
>
Does anybody know if this is possible using simply fopen?
>
I have been reading through the streampages on php.net, but that is kind
of overwhelming to grasps right away. Working on it now.
>
Any advise?
>
Regards,
Erwin Moller

Hi,

Sorry for the noise, but it is solved (without curl).

Solution was to use a context.
Here is some samplecode in case somebody runs into the same problem.
(It was posted on php.net under usercontributed notes.)


$protocol = "http://";
$url = "www.example.co m/administration/webstatistics";
$username = "bla";
$password = "mypass";
$cred = sprintf('Author ization: Basic %s',
base64_encode(" $username:$pass word") );
$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>'GET' ,
'header'=>$cred )
);
$ctx = stream_context_ create($opts);
$handle = fopen ( $protocol.$url, 'r', false,$ctx);
// the 1000000 is not very subtle. :P
$content = fread($handle,1 000000);


Regards,
Erwin Moller

[disccomp]

Re: Basic authentication without CURL

// Cleaned up a bit:
function http_auth_get($ url,$username,$ password){
$cred = sprintf('Author ization: Basic %s',
base64_encode(" $username:$pass word") );
$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>'GET' ,
'header'=>$cred )
);
$ctx = stream_context_ create($opts);
$handle = fopen ( $url, 'r', false,$ctx);

return stream_get_cont ents($handle);

}

[Erwin Moller]

Re: Basic authentication without CURL

disccomp schreef:

// Cleaned up a bit:
function http_auth_get($ url,$username,$ password){
$cred = sprintf('Author ization: Basic %s',
base64_encode(" $username:$pass word") );
$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>'GET' ,
'header'=>$cred )
);
$ctx = stream_context_ create($opts);
$handle = fopen ( $url, 'r', false,$ctx);
>
return stream_get_cont ents($handle);
>
}

A very late: thanks. :-)
Much prettier indeed.

Regards,
Erwin Moller