Re: Posting form variables with http authentication

> This question is almost certainly an RTFM but I can't find it so I am going > to ask anyway. > > I have a form on my ssl which I need to submit to a perl handler on another > server. Problem is the company on the other side is requiring a http > authentication to submit the form. > > I can't think of any way to send the authentication headers along with the > form post. Perhaps I just don't know enough about that area. I was thinking > that perhaps I could build a handler page on my server to take the original > submission via post then send another post via PHP along with the headers > needed for authentication. > > Before I even try this I was wondering if someone out there had ever done > this or could point me in the right direction of some documentation in this > area. If it can't be done I would appreciate knowing that as well. You can do this with curl. curl_setopt ($ch,CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST , $req); where $req contains your custom POST request which can include your Authentication header which is simply base64_encode("username:password") -Rasmus