Basic Authentication

Basic Authentication -- Authentication for protected websites

Introduction to Basic Authentication

Basic Authentication is a challenge-response mechanism described in RFC 2617.

How to use Basic Authentication

Basic Authentication

The following example assumes that one wants to fetch a page /protected.html on the host example.com that is protected using Basic Authentication. The necessary username to pass the authentication is johndoe and the appendant password is foo.


<?php
require_once "HTTP/Request.php";

$req =& new HTTP_Request("http://example.com/protected.html");
$req->setBasicAuth("johndoe", "foo");

$response = $req->sendRequest();

if (PEAR::isError($response)) {
    echo $response->getMessage();
} else {
    echo $req->getResponseBody();
}
?>