Question

I have a server that prompts for http authentication before it gives personalized json results.

How can I write a php script that runs on another box to prompt for the auth, pass it along and pull the results?

Answer 1

Just create a HTML form with login and password inputs, and then retrieve data with cURL.

$curl = curl_init('http://example.com/api');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $_POST['login'].':'.$_POST['password']);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);

$response = curl_exec($curl);

If you want to be more “interactive” try to add some AJAX stuff.