Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have a xml-file on subdomain a, and a php script on subdomain b. I want to read, and use, the data from the XML file, through PHP.
Here’s the catch. The file is secured using HTTP Authentication.
How do I make PHP log-in, and read the contents of the file?
The url wrappers support URLs of the form
http://USER:PASS@yourdomain.com/foo/barso you could simply use file_get_contents.Alternatively, you could fetch it with cURL, either shelling out to use a curl command line, or using the curl extension. Failing that, you could hand code the request using fsockopen etc. Basic authentication is called Basic for a reason – it’s trivially easy to implement: here’s one user-submitted example in the manual.