Curl -H flag in php - php

Question

I have to make a call to an API and I have the terminal command that works but I can't seem to make it work with php (I get 403 forbidden error). This is the call that works:
curl -X GET -H "mail: mail#api.com" -H "password: XXX" "http://api.com/rest/v1"
This is what I have in PHP so far:
$url = "http://api.com/rest/v1";
$headers = array(
"Content-type: application/json",
"Accept: application/json",
);
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "GET");
$auth = array('mail: mail#api.com', 'password: XXX');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($auth));
$data = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
print "Error: " . curl_error($ch);
} else {
// Show me the result
var_dump($data);
curl_close($ch);
}
The var_dump shows bool(true) but I also get the 403 error message. I also tried adding the email/password in the headers but didn't work. Like this (and removing the CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS line):
$headers = array(
"Content-type: application/json",
"Accept: application/json",
'mail: mail#api.com',
'password: XXX'
);

Answer 1

-H is a header for the curl command line, so why are you setting them as the postfields?
Seems like it should be:
$headers = array('mail: mail#api.com', 'password: XXX');
This should be the same as your CLI command above. If this doesn't work, check the output of curl_exec() to see what the server is responding.