Jay Moore wrote:
Stut wrote:
On 5 Sep 2008, at 21:05, Robert Cummings wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:01 -0500, Jay Moore wrote:
Greetings list!
Is it possible (and if so, how) to send username and password
information to a website with PHP?
I would like to submit some information to some network devices we
have,
but they require login credentials to proceed. I would like to bypass
the traditional username/password prompt so I can automate the
procedure.
I hope this makes sense.
If you mean http auth style login information then you do the following:
http://www.somedomain.com:user@password/the/path/to/resource.html
I think he meant
http://user:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/the/path/to/resource.html.
Jay: How does the device ask for the username and password? Is it a
form on the web page, a window from the browser, or what?
-Stut
Stut -
Standard browser prompt. I'm usually pretty good with PHP stuff and
I've bypassed normal forms many times before, but I've never tried to
bypass the browser popup (.htaccess or similar, I presume?).
The browser popup is caused by a requirement for HTTP authentication.
Curl is your best bet for this. All you need to do is set the following
option with the username and password...
curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.':'.$password);
...for each request. If you don't have curl available then you can fall
back on opening a socket and writing the HTTP request manually. If you
need to do this lemme know - I have some code kicking around somewhere
that does it.
-Stut
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