Re: HTTP Authentication [ SOLVED ]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Thiago H. Pojda <thiago.pojda@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Andrew Ballard <aballard@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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 > > I only tried thworing urlencode on everything, which obviously didn't work. > > Both ways worked, using %23 for '#' and the snippet from Nathan. > > > Thanks a lot everyone, I was about to build all the headers and stuff :P > > Regards, > -- > Thiago Henrique Pojda > Yes. If you go that route, you have to separately urlencode each piece of data rather than the whole URL because you don't want the valid delimiters like the colon, @ symbol, slashes, etc. to get encoded. Andrew