Steven Macintyre wrote: > Hiya, > > I need to be able to read a file into a string - I have used the above > command and it works ... now ... I need to read a file into a string - that > requires a username and password to access the authentication is normal HTTP > basic realm > > Any ideas? $var = file_get_contents('http://username:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/path/to/secret/file.txt'); This is standard web syntax - e.g. it will work in a web browser, wget, curl, etc. Col. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php