Re: Re: How to get PHP to download web contents

Try CURL: http://us2.php.net/curl On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 10:17, Steve B. wrote: > Yes I had tried all those below before posting. > It sounds like this is the only way to deal with authentication from what I see. > In windows it works fine from the browser to include name and pass in url. > In Linux it comes back and asks for the pw again. > I'd think the only difference would be in headers. > Is there any header info todo with authentication which come from the client which are not set > by > doing the url name and pw? > > Thanks, > Steve > > --- Ognyan Bankov <ogre@ogre.homelinux.org> wrote: > > "Steve B." <stylinsty@yahoo.com> wrote in message > > news:20030703233946.58370.qmail@web41505.mail.yahoo.com... > > > Hi Nadim, > > > It works but not for sites with password window that pops up. > > I see. > > That is HTTP Basic Authentication > > You should use this line: > > $filename = 'http://someuser:somepwd@somesite.com/';P6j ½•¬í > > ¦ïŸ½‘ > > instead of: > > $filename = > > "http://somesite.com?user=someuser&pwd=somepwd; > > > > and source will look like: > > <?php > > // get contents of a file into a string > > $filename = 'http://someuser:somepwd@somesite.com/';Â`C=1 > > êVá”çÅ’çDÓ > > $handle = fopen ($filename, "r"); > > $contents = fread ($handle, filesize ($filename)); > > fclose ($handle); > > ?> > > > > nadim's solution will look like this: > > $html = implode ('', file > > ('http://someuser:somepwd@somesite.com/')); > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Adam Voigt (adam@cryptocomm.com) Linux/Unix Network Administrator The Cryptocomm Group