Question

I’m trying to create a script that will login to an Icecast2 server and grab the metadata for the currently playing tracks. My issue is that the Icecast server is user/pass protected via basic HTTP login.

    <?php
        $fp = fsockopen("xxxxxxxx.com", 8000, $errno, $errstr, 30);
        if (!$fp) {
            echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
        } else {
            $out = "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
            $out .= "Icy-MetaData:1\r\n";
            $out .= "Host: xxxxxxxx.com\r\n";
            $out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";

            fwrite($fp, $out);
            $arr = array();

            while (!feof($fp)) {
                $arr[] = fgets($fp, 128);
            }
            fclose($fp);
        }

        echo json_encode(trim(strip_tags($arr[73])));

?>

This is the script that has allowed me to grab metadata before the Icecast server was password protected.

In short, how do I send a user/pass via this script to the Icecast server to login and grab the info successfully? (Uses htpasswd)

Thanks in advanced!

Answer 1

As described on Wikipedia, you need the Authorization: Basic header and base64_encode() username:password.

Code to add:

$out .= "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($user .":". $password);