Re: HTTP Authentication
| From: | Andrew Ballard | Date: | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:15:56 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: HTTP Authentication | ||
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Thiago H. Pojda <thiago.pojda@gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I have to access a WS that uses HTTP auth directly with PHP.
>
> I've tried using the usual http://user:pw@example.com/ but
> I couldn't get it
> working. I believe it has something to do with the password containing a #
> (can't change it) and the browser thinks it's an achor or something.
>
> All I've seen were scripts to implement HTTP Auth in PHP, nothing about
> actually logging in with PHP.
>
> Is it possible to send the authentication headers the first time I access
> the link? I could send all necessary headers to the page I'm trying to
> access and retrieve it's content at once.
>
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Thiago Henrique Pojda
>
You're passing the username and password as part of a URL, so
shouldn't the username and password be urlencoded? I'm thinking it
will work if you replace the '#' sign with %23.
Andrew