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Pass user and pw to web server via php

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:11 pm
by myitanalyst
I am posting to a web service that require user authentication. I simply clear security in the normal dialog box and all is well.

However I need to do this via a php script. I have everything ready to go other than trying to pass user and security to the site when posting.

How can I do this. The user is an actual email address and the a password.

I have tried the formation http://user@pw:www.postpage.com/post/ but since the user is an email address with the @ sign it seems to crap out. I haven't done this before so any help would be greatful.

Thanks

Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 6:05 pm
by myitanalyst
Found it... had to use the following:

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$headers .= "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode($this->user.":".$this->pass)."\r\n";