***BOGO*** Re: [PHP] Sending username/password

[Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jay Moore wrote:
> Stut wrote:
> > On 5 Sep 2008, at 21:05, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 15:01 -0500, Jay Moore wrote:
> > > > Greetings list!
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible (and if so, how) to send username and password
> > > > information to a website with PHP?
> > > >
> > > > I would like to submit some information to some network devices we 
> > > > have,
> > > > but they require login credentials to proceed.  I would like to bypass
> > > > the traditional username/password prompt so I can automate the 
> > > > procedure.
> > > >
> > > > I hope this makes sense.
> > >
> > > If you mean http auth style login information then you do the following:
> > >
> > >    http://www.somedomain.com:user@password/the/path/to/resource.html
> >
> > I think he meant 
> > http://user:password@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/the/path/to/resource.html.
> >
> > Jay: How does the device ask for the username and password? Is it a 
> > form on the web page, a window from the browser, or what?
> >
> > -Stut
>
> Stut -
>
> Standard browser prompt.  I'm usually pretty good with PHP stuff and 
> I've bypassed normal forms many times before, but I've never tried to 
> bypass the browser popup (.htaccess or similar, I presume?).

The browser popup is caused by a requirement for HTTP authentication. 
Curl is your best bet for this. All you need to do is set the following 
option with the username and password...

curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.':'.$password);

...for each request. If you don't have curl available then you can fall 
back on opening a socket and writing the HTTP request manually. If you 
need to do this lemme know - I have some code kicking around somewhere 
that does it.

-Stut

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