How do I do HTTP basic authentication using Guzzle?
Solution 1:
If you're using Guzzle 5.0 or newer, the docs say that basic auth is specified using the auth parameter:
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->get('http://www.server.com/endpoint', [
'auth' => [
'username',
'password'
]
]);
Please note that the syntax is different if you're using Guzzle 3.0 or earlier. The constructor is different, and you also need to explicitly use the send
method on a request to get a response:
$client = new Guzzle\Http\Client();
$request = $client->get('http://www.server.com/endpoint');
$request->setAuth('username', 'password');
$response = $request->send();
Solution 2:
In additional to @amenadiel answer. Sometimes handy specify auth parameters in constructor:
$client = new Client([
'auth' => ['username', 'password'],
]);
Then every request will use this default auth parameters.
Solution 3:
This dint work when I used Guzzlev6 and used the advice from @amenadiel. When you use curl, your syntax would look something like
curl -u [email protected]:password http://service.com
behind the scenes it actually takes the "[email protected]:password" bit, base64 encodes it and sends the request with an "Authorization" Header with the encoded value. For this example, that will be:
Authorization: Basic c29tZW9uZUBnbWFpbC5jb206cGFzc3dvcmQ=
Advice from @amenadiel appended an "auth: username,password" header and hence, my authentication kept failing. To achieve this successfully, just craft the header when you are instantiating a Guzzle Client request, i.e
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$credentials = base64_encode('[email protected]:password');
$response = $client->get('http://www.server.com/endpoint', [
'Authorization' => ['Basic '.$credentials]
]);
That would append the header as curl would, and whatever service you are trying to connect to will stop yelling at you,
Cheers.
Solution 4:
According to the Guzzle 6 documentation, you can do a request with basic authorization as simple as this:
$client = new Client();
$response = $client->request(
'POST', /*instead of POST, you can use GET, PUT, DELETE, etc*/
$url,
[
'auth' => ['username', 'password'] /*if you don't need to use a password, just leave it null*/
]
);
echo $response->getBody();
NOTE: You don't need to use base64_encode() at all because it already does it before the request.
I've tested and it works :)
See more at: Guzzle 6 Documentation