How do I make a request using HTTP basic authentication with PHP curl?

I'm building a REST web service client in PHP and at the moment I'm using curl to make requests to the service.

How do I use curl to make authenticated (http basic) requests? Do I have to add the headers myself?

Solution 1:

You want this:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);  

Zend has a REST client and zend_http_client and I'm sure PEAR has some sort of wrapper. But its easy enough to do on your own.

So the entire request might look something like this:

$ch = curl_init($host);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml', $additionalHeaders));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $payloadName);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$return = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Solution 2:

CURLOPT_USERPWD basically sends the base64 of the user:password string with http header like below:

Authorization: Basic dXNlcjpwYXNzd29yZA==

So apart from the CURLOPT_USERPWD you can also use the HTTP-Request header option as well like below with other headers:

$headers = array(
    'Content-Type:application/json',
    'Authorization: Basic '. base64_encode("user:password") // <---
);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

Solution 3:

The most simple and native way it's to use CURL directly.

This works for me :

<?php
$login = 'login';
$password = 'password';
$url = 'http://your.url';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$login:$password");
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);  
echo($result);

Solution 4:

You just need to specify CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH and CURLOPT_USERPWD options:

$curlHandler = curl_init();

$userName = 'postman';
$password = 'password';

curl_setopt_array($curlHandler, [
    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://postman-echo.com/basic-auth',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,

    CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_BASIC,
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => $userName . ':' . $password,
]);

$response = curl_exec($curlHandler);
curl_close($curlHandler);

Or specify header:

$curlSecondHandler = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curlSecondHandler, [
    CURLOPT_URL => 'https://postman-echo.com/basic-auth',
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,

    CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
        'Authorization: Basic ' . base64_encode($userName . ':' . $password)
    ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curlSecondHandler);
curl_close($curlSecondHandler);

Guzzle example:

use GuzzleHttp\Client;
use GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions;

$userName = 'postman';
$password = 'password';

$httpClient = new Client();

$response = $httpClient->get(
    'https://postman-echo.com/basic-auth',
    [
        RequestOptions::AUTH => [$userName, $password]
    ]
);

print_r($response->getBody()->getContents());

See https://github.com/andriichuk/php-curl-cookbook#basic-auth