Diana Castillo wrote: > How can I read the contents of a web page that uses basic > authentication? > I want to use fopen() but dont know how to do this and also send the > username and password You may be able to do embed the username/password in your URL: $file = fopen("http://username:password@xxxxxxxxxxx") or die("Could not open remote page"); You may want to actually store the username/password in a different file, and try to make it slightly less easy to read/find that file to avoid exposing passwords, the same way you would do with MySQL username/password. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php