Monitoring a SSL Auth'd page

Ok I got a question for you guys and gals, I am not sure how to go about this, looking for opinions. I am trying to open a secured url, we'll say https://www.bob.com/test/index.php?blah=freak Also, it's got http-auth in it, say user=abc and password=123, so how would I go about using php to download the page, compare it, then generate a, say, snmp trap based on the findings (say I downloaded the page or have search text in the page), and if it can't get to it, or gets an error, etc... it generates the trap. Just curious how I should go about this, fopen doesn't seem to support https, not sure if I could use AUTH with that anyway, but any suggestions are welcome... -Matt See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed guitar http://r.lycos.com/r/bmgfly_mail_dmb/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_020201/splash.asp