Authentication when using fopen()

[Anon]

Hi all

I'm trying to write a script that opens up and saves a copy of a web page from another website. I use a bit of code like:

$fp = fopen("http://www.xyz.com/file.html", "r");

However, the website I am trying to access requires a username and password to authenticate access, and I can't find any way of passing this login information to the site so that I can retrieve the page. (note, I do have a valid login id and pw).

So, how do I pass login information to the website so that my fopen() requests aren't rejected ?

thanks

fer

[Anon]

I havent tried this myself.. But it sould work fine... Do it like this:

$login = 'login';
$password = 'password';

$fp = fopen("http://$login:$[e-mail]/file.html", "r");

It's not tested so I'm not a 100% sure it will work.. But like I said.. It should..

Andreas Bernhardsen

[Anon]

I think that uses sockets is better...

You may print on the socket and read too...

[Anon]

Excellent !

Thanks Andreas, that works great.

cheers

fer