On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 21:24 +0100, Stut wrote: > 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. Can also use file() or file_get_contents() if your PHP config enables allow_url_fopen Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
