Automate HTTP Basic authentication from PHP script?

Hello,

i am trying to automate Basic HTTP authentication from within a PHP
script. Does anyone know if this is possible? I was looking into
sending a header-string like this:

"Authorization: Basic sdsdsdsdsdjk="

but this doesn't seem to work like i expected.

Basically, what i am trying to do is enable a user to link to a
non-public webpage through another webpage. So i want to send the
needed username and password from the PHP page, to avoid having a
login popup screen appear.

Thanks, Olaf

Olaf wrote:

> Hello,
>
> i am trying to automate Basic HTTP authentication from within a PHP
> script. Does anyone know if this is possible? I was looking into
> sending a header-string like this:
>
> "Authorization: Basic sdsdsdsdsdjk="
>
> but this doesn't seem to work like i expected.
>
> Basically, what i am trying to do is enable a user to link to a
> non-public webpage through another webpage. So i want to send the
> needed username and password from the PHP page, to avoid having a
> login popup screen appear.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here, but you can do this

http://username:password@server:port/page

This will allow a link to include a username and password.

Kind Regards,

Ian P. Christian

"Ian P. Christian" <pookey@pookey.co.uk> wrote in message news:<bmjvmo$m1o$4@goat.anlx.net>...
> Olaf wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > i am trying to automate Basic HTTP authentication from within a PHP
> > script. Does anyone know if this is possible? I was looking into
> > sending a header-string like this:
> >
> > "Authorization: Basic sdsdsdsdsdjk="
> >
> > but this doesn't seem to work like i expected.
> >
> > Basically, what i am trying to do is enable a user to link to a
> > non-public webpage through another webpage. So i want to send the
> > needed username and password from the PHP page, to avoid having a
> > login popup screen appear.
>
> Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here, but you can do this
>
> http://username:password@server:port/page
>
> This will allow a link to include a username and password.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Ian P. Christian


this is indeed one solution..the thing is that i don't want the user
to see/know the username/password combination..

Olaf

Olaf wrote:

> this is indeed one solution..the thing is that i don't want the user
> to see/know the username/password combination..
>
> Olaf

For a browser to access a page directly that requires a username and
password, it needs to know them!

The work account is to make a script that acts are a kinda proxy, look into
the curl functions, or the PEAR HTTP classes.

Kind Regards,

Ian P. Christian

"Olaf" <olaf@ilink.nl> wrote in message
news:20b0db67.0310160421.df62cf0@posting.google.co m...
> "Ian P. Christian" <pookey@pookey.co.uk> wrote in message
news:<bmjvmo$m1o$4@goat.anlx.net>...
> > Olaf wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > i am trying to automate Basic HTTP authentication from within a PHP
> > > script. Does anyone know if this is possible? I was looking into
> > > sending a header-string like this:
> > >
> > > "Authorization: Basic sdsdsdsdsdjk="
> > >
> > > but this doesn't seem to work like i expected.
> > >
> > > Basically, what i am trying to do is enable a user to link to a
> > > non-public webpage through another webpage. So i want to send the
> > > needed username and password from the PHP page, to avoid having a
> > > login popup screen appear.
> >
> > Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here, but you can do this
> >
> > http://username:password@server:port/page
> >
> > This will allow a link to include a username and password.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Ian P. Christian
>
>
> this is indeed one solution..the thing is that i don't want the user
> to see/know the username/password combination..
>
> Olaf

A *little* better would be to hide the url containing the usrname/pwd in a
hidden frame on an earlier page. I believe most browsers will then cache
the username/pwd pair for all subsequent accesses. If someone pours through
your source html, they could still find it, but it wouldn't be as obvious as
having it appear in the address window on your browser.

Dan