note 17727 added to ref.http

If you want to request htaccess secured document try this code: $uri = "/blah/iampasswordsecured.html"; $host = "i.am.htaccess.capable.webserver.org"; $user = "Aladdin"; $password = "open sesame"; $basiccredentials = base64_encode($user . ":" . $password); $sp = fsockopen($host, 80, $errnr, $errstr, 30); if (! $sp) { print "$errstr ($errnr)<BR>\n"; } else { fputs($sp, "GET $uri HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: $host\r\nAuthorization: Basic $basiccredentials\r\n\r\n"); while (!feof($sp)) { print fgets($sp, 128); } fclose($sp); } this works like virtual() ;-) note: this is the basic access authentication scheme only. if you want to use the digest authentication scheme implement it yourself ;) using the rfc2617 (page 6) -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.http.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+17727 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+17727 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+17727