Posted by fiziwig on 11/02/30 11:51

Hi,

I've written my first attempt at basic authentication and it doesn't
work. I thought I understood the specs, but I must be missing something
obvious. Can anyone give me a hint as to what might be going wrong. I
know the username and password are correct because I can log into the
site manually. Below is the code (with my customer's site-specific
stuff X'ed out) :

Thanks,
--gary

$fh = fsockopen('XXXXXXXXX.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if($fh) {
$body =
'service=RemoveProspect&modifiers[responder]='.$group;
$body .= '&modifiers[email]='.$_POST['email'];
$body .= '&modifiers[ip]='.$ip_addr;
$request = 'POST /XXX/Webservice/PostServer/
HTTP/1.1'."\r\n"
.'Authorization: Basic
'.base64_encode("username:password")."\r\n"
.'Host: XXXXXXXXX.com'."\r\n"
.'Referer:
http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']."\r\n"
."Content-Type:
application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"
.'Content-length: '.strlen($body)."\r\n"
.'Connection: close'."\r\n\r\n"
.$body;
fwrite($fh, $request);
$response = '';
while(!feof($fh)) {
$response .= fread($fh, 1024);
}
fclose($fh);

The variable strings are OK because I can cut and paste them into the
URL when I log in manually and they are accepted. But the above code
always returns a 403, Not Authorized.

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