PHP - How to fire HTTP get request on a secured URL (HTTPS)? - php

Question

I am trying to fire a HTTP GET request on a secured URL which asks for username and password. This is fine when I am using that from browser but I am not sure how to do that using PHP.
I have tried using the two methods:
1) Using Curl as suggested in here: Make a HTTPS request through PHP and get response
2) Using the file_get_contents as suggested in here: How to send a GET request from PHP?
But the first one didn't give me any response back. And the second one gave me the following error:
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed
And this is my code for the curl:
$url="https://xxxxx.com";
$ch=curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;
and for the file_get_contents:
$url="https://xxxx.com";
$response=file_get_contents($url);
echo $response;
The URL will return a XML response for a API I am testing. Can someone point me to the right direction?
Thanks!

Answer 1

If we focus on the requirement to send a username and password because I suspect that's your main problem, try this
$ch = curl_init();
$url="https://xxxxx.com";
// OR - check with your server's operator
$url="http://xxxxx.com";
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
// or maybe
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
// - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4753648/problems-with-username-or-pass-with-colon-when-setting-curlopt-userpwd
// check the cURL documentation
$output = curl_exec($ch);
$info = curl_getinfo($ch);
// don't forget to check the content of $info, even a print_r($info) is better
// than nothing during debug
curl_close($ch);