On 14 October 2010 21:45, Brian Dunning <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Gents - > > I'm trying to work with a major vendor's web service, but all my efforts are met with a 401 authentication error response. I can log in manually to this URL using these credentials through a browser, so I know the credentials are good. Unfortunately the support guys at the vendor don't see any problem with my code and have not been able to help. > > $url = "https://servername.com/script"; > $ctx = stream_context_create(array('https' => array( > Â Â Â Â'timeout' => 10, > Â Â Â Â'header' Â=> sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", base64_encode("myUsername:myPassword")) > Â Â Â Â))); > $result = file_get_contents($url, 0, $ctx); > $http_response = explode(' ', $http_response_header[0]); > $response_code = $http_response[1]; Â Â <<<=== This is evaluating to '401' > > > Thanks. Are they using Basic authentication? Does ... https://myUsername:myPassword@http://servername.com/script work? Is this a SOAP based web service? Are they expecting the SOAPHeader to contain the authentication? -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php