On 23-Sep-2001 Jeff Bristow 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.
>
$host='server.com';
$url='/greendocks/locked/useradd.htm?user=blah&pass=blah';
$authuser='foo'; // blah ?
$authpass='baz'; // blah ?
$authenc=base64_encode("$authuser:$authpass");
$hdr =sprintf("GET %s HTTP/1.0\r\n", $url);
$hdr .="Accept: text/html\r\nAccept: text/plain\r\n";
$hdr .="User-Agent: Mozilla/1.0 (PHP spoof)\r\n";
$hdr .="Authorization: Basic $authenc\r\n\r\n";
$fp = fsockopen($host , 80, &$errno, &$errstr, 30);
if (!$fp) {
die "$host open error: $errstr $errno .\n";
}
fputs($fp,$hdr);
while(!feof($fp)) {
$buff=fgets($fp,1024);
... do yer thang
}
fclose($fp);
Regards,
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