Question

So this is what I have so far:

self::$connection = curl_init();
curl_setopt(self::$connection, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt(self::$connection, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
curl_setopt(self::$connection, CURLOPT_URL, $url);

curl_exec(self::$connection); // Do a request that uses Basic Auth
curl_setopt(self::$connection, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, false); // <-- Not working as expected - I want to disable Basic Auth here
curl_setopt(self::$connection, CURLOPT_URL, $anotherURL);
curl_exec(self::$connection); // <-- Not working as expected - I want to do a request that does NOT use Basic Auth.

So, if I initialized the CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH option to CURLAUTH_BASIC, how would I go about disabling it?

I need to use the same handle (that is self::$connection) in order to have a persistent HTTP connection.

Answer 1

If it helps anyone, this is what I ended up doing:

if ($enableBasicAuth){
    self::$httpHeaders['Authorization'] = 'Basic '.base64_encode("$username:$password");    
}
else if (isset(self::$httpHeaders['Authorization'])){
    unset(self::$httpHeaders['Authorization']);    // Disable Basic Auth
}

// Convert the $httpHeaders array into a format that is used by CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER
$httpHeadersRaw = array();
foreach (self::$httpHeaders as $header=>$value){
    $httpHeadersRaw[] = $header.': '.$value;
}
curl_setopt(self::$connection, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $httpHeadersRaw); // Set the HTTP Basic Auth header manually

Basically I just manually enable/disable Basic Auth using the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER option.