Double .htaccess prompt using fopen()

[ichbingreat]

Hi!
I want to access a site that is protected using .htacess on a remote server.
The page that I get is a clickable list of log files that get added by the host daily. I cannot get ftp access to this directory, or else I would definitely do it that way. It's only http.
These file names are simply the date.csv (01012004.csv, 01022004.csv).
Since the process of downloading these files is tedious and long, I created a little php script to go and fetch them.
As it didn't seem to work, I made a little debugging script to see where the problem was:

here is the loop:

$filepref ="http://uname:[e-mail]/mydir/filedir/";

// Fake the browser type
ini_set('user_agent','MSIE 4.0b2;');

while (diff_days($cdate,$edate)>=0) {
$thefile = $am . $ad . $ay . ".csv";
//do the file stuff
$filename = $filepref . $thefile;
echo("Going to read: $filename . <br>");
// open file
If ($fh = fopen($filename, "r"))
{
$i=0;
while (!feof($fh)) {
$cline = fgets($fh);
echo("&nbsp;&nbsp;Reading line $i: value= $cline<br>");
if (ltrim($cline)!="") {
$contents .= $cline;
$i++;
}
}
fclose($fh);
}
else {
//$errors .= "Could not open file " . $thefile . "<br>";
echo("&nbsp;-- Could not open file " . $thefile . "<br>");
}
//normalize next day
$showname = getnextday($am, $ad, $ay);
list($am,$ad,$ay) = split('-',$showname);
$cdate=normalizedate($am, $ad, $ay);
}

I get:

Going to read: [url]http://uname:[e-mail]...ir/01012004.csv[/url] .
Warning: fopen(http://[e-mail]/mydir/01012004.csv): failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Access Denied in /var/www/html/fetchfile.php on line 147
-- Could not open file 01012004.csv

When I copy and past the url in the location bar, it prompts me for the uname/pword again, which I type in exactly and then get access to the file.

I found out that the host is a Window 2000 Server running IIS with all the latest patches. They told me that they don't block anything on the machine.

I did find out that there is a "domain" that we can put into the Basic Authentication, is there a way to implement that in the fopen command?

Or Is there a way to make it send the .htaccess login and password twice in a row through the php script?

[rehfeld]

well, you need to send a cookie to that server so it thinks your logged in.

a hackish way would be to log in using your browser, get the cookie that it gives you, then cut and paste it real quick into your script. but now you need to use fsockopen() instead of fopen() so you can send the cookie

[ichbingreat]

I'm not that familiar (ok, not all familiar) with getting cookies. Would you have an example of code? And how to use that with fsockopen()?

Also, when I actually do log in manually and get the page listing the clickable downloads, it asks me for the login/pword again for the first click, then it doesn't anymore...