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?
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Answer
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);