How do I make a request using HTTP basic authentication with PHP curl?

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I'm building a REST web service client in PHP and at the moment I'm using curl to make requests to the service.

How do I use curl to make authenticated (http basic) requests? Do I have to add the headers myself?

Answers

You want this:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);

Zend has a REST client and zend_http_client and I'm sure PEAR has some sort of wrapper. But its easy enough to do on your own.

So the entire request might look something like this:

$ch = curl_init($host);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml', $additionalHeaders));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payloadName);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Thursday, October 6, 2022

steros-088da23525e3

I've solved the problem with putting the API key as 'x-api-key' in the HTTP Header.

This looks like the following code:

$api_key = 'abc';
$token = 'xyz';

$authorization = 'Authorization: Bearer ' . $token;
$api = 'x-api-key: ' . $api_key;
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array($authorization, $api));

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

justderb

This is the only method that worked for me so far:

$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $username,$password)))

Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{Authorization=("Basic {0}" -f $base64AuthInfo)} ...

But I don't believe there isn't a better way.

Thursday, October 13, 2022

jmoorelabs

require 'sinatra'

helpers do
  def protected!
    unless authorized?
      response['WWW-Authenticate'] = %(Basic realm="Testing HTTP Auth")
      throw(:halt, [401, "Not authorizedn"])
    end
  end

  def authorized?
    @auth ||=  Rack::Auth::Basic::Request.new(request.env)
    @auth.provided? && @auth.basic? && @auth.credentials && @auth.credentials == ['admin', 'admin']
  end
end

before { protected! unless request.path_info == "/public" }

get('/public') { "I'm public!" }

Sunday, August 7, 2022

max_matthews

There is a redirection - i use file_get_contents() (but why not curl) and $http_response_header:

$uid = 36377783;

$xUrl = "http://www.roblox.com/Asset/BodyColors.ashx?userId=".$uid;

$opts = array(
  'http'=>array(
      'method'=>"GET",
      'follow_location' => true,
      'header'=>
        "Host: www.roblox.comrn" .
        "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0rn" .
        "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8rn" .
        "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflatern" .
        "DNT: 1rn"

  )
);


$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$xml = file_get_contents($xUrl, false, $context);
#print_r($http_response_header);
$url_redirect = str_replace('Location: ',"",$http_response_header[5]);
#print $url_redirect;
$xml = file_get_contents($url_redirect);
#print_r($xml);
$roblox_responses = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
print_r($roblox_responses);

Thursday, December 22, 2022

methodin

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