PHP url execute - php

Question

I want to update icecast server metadata info, everything works great if I enter it manually into the browser like this:
http://IPADDRESS:PORT/admin/metadata?mount=/live&mode=updinfo&song=ARTIST+SONG+NAME
I get XML response that metadata is successfully updated and it really is if I check live stream (even the iTunes pops out with the song info).
The problem is that I made a php script that should using cURL execute this same URL but I tried numeruos ways and solutions and non of them works. Can anyone help me? How can I execute this URL in the php script?
Thank you!
This is the code in my php that should execute the URL to update metadata but it does not work:
$url = "http://IPADDRESS:PORT/admin/metadata?mount=/live&mode=updinfo&song=".urlencode($params)."";
file_put_contents($file2, $url);
$agent = 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
$result=curl_exec($ch);
var_dump($result);
I even created help so that URL gets saved in .txt file and it gets generated OK. If I copy it and manually enter it in browser metadata gets changed, but automatically trough php script it won't. I also tried with http authentication for icecast and won't work, when I'm entering URL manually I don't need to authenticate for changing metadata.
I really don't know what else to do.
Thank you in advance for any help!

Answer 1

Your script does not have the permission of changing meta data of your Icecast Radio because it does NOT have any username and password. You can make the URL query work in your browser because you simply give username and password before. You can send username and password using CURLOPT_USERPWD
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.":".$password);