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Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf on 02/19/05 21:53
Al wrote:
> Diana Castillo wrote:
>
>> How can I read the contents of a web page that uses basic
>> authentication? I want to use fopen() but dont know how to do this and
>> also send the username and password
>>
>
> If the webpage is your script and it is going to check the
> authentication stuff, then simply use GET arguments
>
> fopen("http://www.example.com/path/file?user=username&pw=password", 'rb')
>
> Then use....
>
> $user= $_GET['user'];
>
> $pw= $_GET['pw'];
>
> Check the $user and $pw for validity.
>
> If the webpage is not yours, then see if it can accept GET arguments for
> authentication, look at your browser's address bar to gain accesss. That
> will be your complete URL.
The syntax for basic auth is actually:
http://user:password@www.example.com
-Rasmus
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