Re: Sending username/password

Robert Cummings wrote:

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 21:24 +0100, Stut wrote:

Jay Moore wrote:

Stut wrote:

On 5 Sep 2008, at 21:05, Robert Cummings wrote:

On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:01 -0500, Jay Moore wrote:

Greetings list! Is it possible (and if so, how) to send username and password information to a website with PHP? I would like to submit some information to some network devices we have, but they require login credentials to proceed. I would like to bypass the traditional username/password prompt so I can automate the procedure. I hope this makes sense.

If you mean http auth style login information then you do the following: http://www.somedomain.com:user@password/the/path/to/resource.html

I think he meant http://user:password@www.somedomwin.com/the/path/to/resource.html. Jay: How does the device ask for the username and password? Is it a form on the web page, a window from the browser, or what? -Stut

Stut - Standard browser prompt. I'm usually pretty good with PHP stuff and I've bypassed normal forms many times before, but I've never tried to bypass the browser popup (.htaccess or similar, I presume?).

The browser popup is caused by a requirement for HTTP authentication. Curl is your best bet for this. All you need to do is set the following option with the username and password... curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.':'.$password); ...for each request. If you don't have curl available then you can fall back on opening a socket and writing the HTTP request manually. If you need to do this lemme know - I have some code kicking around somewhere that does it.

Can also use file() or file_get_contents() if your PHP config enables allow_url_fopen

Quite correct, assuming it's a GET request that's needed. -Stut -- http://stut.net/