PHP: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed - php

Question

I have the script below and was wondering why I was getting the error:
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required
The base64 encoded value is in the form username:password and is correct. The API documentation gave the example as:
Authorization: Basic
QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
For example, if the user agent uses Aladdin as the username and open sesame as the password, then the field is formed as above in the HTTP header
<?php
$postData = array(
'primaryContact' => array('id' => 1),
'subject' => 'Something not working'
);
$context = stream_context_create(array(
'http' => array(
'method' => 'POST',
'header' => "Authorization: Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
'content' => json_encode($postData)
)
));
// Send the request
$response = file_get_contents('http://127.0.0.1/', FALSE, $context);
// Check for errors
if($response === FALSE){
die('Error');
}
// Decode the response
$responseData = json_decode($response, TRUE);
// Print the date from the response
echo $responseData;
?>
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Tested and your code works. i think its the server. atleast check the server username and password again (your base64 code is correct)
I tested on: iis 7.5 the website has basic auth setup (http 401 Challenge)
(on iis that means that i can use my windows server credentials)
add the $http_response_headers to your error line to get more information.
// Check for errors
if($response === FALSE){
var_dump($http_response_header);
die('Error');
}