Re: http authentication and php

if you just want to output the file to the user, readfile("http://server.com/greendocks/locked/useradd.htm?user=blah&pass=blah"); should work. If you want to play with the file first, file() will put it in an array, fopen() will create a file pointer to it, you could create your very own HTTP session (if you know the protocol) with fsockopen()... i'm sure there are more, but that's all you need (probably). I would probably use this: $file=implode("\n",file("http://server.com/greendocks/locked/useradd.htm?user=blah&pass=blah")); if i wanted to place the whole thing in one variable, not an array. On Saturday 22 September 2001 20:39, you wrote: > I am trying to write a php script that will work around a http > authentication that I do have access to. I am trying to do this so that a > form process in my control panel can automatically have information sent to > it from a form that a user will fill out. However, my problem is in trying > to get PHP to automatically authenticate. > > > for example: I want to be able to call a url like this: > > http://server.com/greendocks/locked/useradd.htm?user=blah&pass=blah > but > this url is behind a http authentication. Is it possible to have this url > called by a php script? > > And the second part of the question is can I do this process so it is > completely invisible to the user that this page has been called? Because of > course I don't want to allow users to have access to everything in my > control panel. > > Hopefully someone knows what I'm getting at. Thanks for any help you may be > able to provide. > > Jeff