note 9768 added to fsockopen

You can post to a script that uses basic authentication if you create the header like this and insert it into the relevant script above; // Build the header $header = "POST /path/to/script.cgi HTTP/1.0\r\nAuthorization: Basic "; $header .= base64_encode("$username:$password") . "\r\n"; $header .= "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"; $header .= "Content-length: " . strlen($request) . "\r\n"; $header .= "Connection: close\r\n\r\n"; http://www.php.net/manual/function.fsockopen.php