Redirect to a page that uses basic authentication [PHP]

Question

I'm trying to redirect to a page that uses basic authentication, with no success so far. Most examples I found online where to either use fopen or curl to request a resource, which I don't want to do.

I've tried putting in the header the "Authorization: Basic" plus the encoded user:password, but it didn't work. Is it because I first need to receive a request from the other page for the authorization credentials?

Answer 1

No. It's because it's just impossible. You send these headers to the browser, and browser don't know what to do with it.

Direct request feature (using login:pass@ notation) was removed, due to excessive phishing usage.

So, do just usual redirect and then let user to enter their password.