How can I access a RESTful API in PHP that is password projected (I know the password)

Question

So for example here is a URL: https://rexms.net:32005/rexwapi/common/timeframes -- if I go to that URL in my browser enter the correct username/password it will spit out XML at me. The problem is I need to access this through PHP so I obviously don't get a prompt to enter username/password.

Current code is:

$timeframes_xml = simplexml_load_file(file_get_contents('https://rexms.net:32005/rexwapi/common/timeframes'));

Answer 1

I think you can simply use

https://username:[email protected]:32005/rexwapi/common/timeframes

Answer 2

You need to use curl with curl_setopt to set the CURLOPT_USERPWD option.

Answer 3

It may be best to approach this using three PEAR packages: HTTP/Socket/Net. With the HTTP package you are able to make REST requests to a Basic Auth realm easily.

For more check out: How To: Making a PHP REST client to call REST resources

Answer 4

You need to set the Http header Authorization. Set the value to a base64 encoded version of

Basic username:password

That is assuming the server is using basic auth. On Windows you could use Fiddler to see what type of auth the server is requesting.

Answer 5

Found my answer in another SO question

function get_rex_xml($url)
{
    $curl = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt_array($curl, array(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => TRUE,CURLOPT_USERPWD => 'username:password'));
    ob_start();
    $response_xml = curl_exec($curl);
    ob_end_clean();
    curl_close($curl);
    return $response_xml;
}

header('content-type:text/xml');
echo get_rex_xml('https://rexms.net:32005/rexwapi/common/timeframes');