Thank you -- we found a tailor-made package, php-delicious, by Ed Eliot, that is fantastic and perfect for our needs. Bob Hanson Manuel Lemos wrote: >Hello, > >on 05/31/2007 12:57 AM hansonr312 said the following: > > >>We are just getting started on a project that involves our host >>Windows/Apache2.2/PHP5 server communicating with a second server using >>the https://username:password@xxx protocol. >> >>I'm new to PHP. Can someone tell me what is going to be involved in >>doing this? >> >> > >Try this HTTP client class. It supports authentication as you want. > >http://www.phpclasses.org/httpclient > > > > -- Robert M. Hanson Professor of Chemistry St. Olaf College Northfield, MN http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr If nature does not answer first what we want, it is better to take what answer we get. -- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900