Re: Send username & password in HTTP headers

--- Nagendra Prasad <nthumuluru@osi-tech.com> wrote: > I'm posting some XML data to my client's website using HTTP Post. > Assume I'm posting to getxml.php (hosted on my clients server). > Now my client has put authentication on his website using > header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Private Area"'); > > Now the page getxml.php asks me to prove my identity before it > acceps my xml posts. So how do I send the username & pwd when I'm > posting the xml details? Include an Authorization header, which should look something like this: Authorization: Basic bXluYW1lOm15cGFzcw== The encoded string is just the result of this: base64_encode('myname:mypass') Substitute with the correct username and password. Hope that helps. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming Fall 2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/