Re: Help with sending credentials?

On 14 October 2010 21:45, Brian Dunning <brian@briandunning.com> wrote: > Gents - > > I'm trying to work with a major vendor's web service, but all my efforts are met with > a 401 authentication error response. I can log in manually to this URL using these credentials > through a browser, so I know the credentials are good. Unfortunately the support guys at the vendor > don't see any problem with my code and have not been able to help. > > $url = "https://servername.com/script"; > $ctx = stream_context_create(array('https' => array( >        'timeout' => 10, >        'header'  => sprintf("Authorization: Basic %s\r\n", > base64_encode("myUsername:myPassword")) >        ))); > $result = file_get_contents($url, 0, $ctx); > $http_response = explode(' ', $http_response_header[0]); > $response_code = $http_response[1];     <<<=== This is evaluating to '401' > > > Thanks. Are they using Basic authentication? Does ... https://myUsername:myPassword@http://servername.com/script work? Is this a SOAP based web service? Are they expecting the SOAPHeader to contain the authentication? -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY