Posted by Rik on 03/14/07 09:16

Andrew <Taylor> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got an RSS feed I'd like to consume from our Sharepoint server. =

> When I try:
>
> $xml =3D simplexml_load_file($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=
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be a bit heavy for it, using fsockopen() could also be made to work.

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