Pass user and pw to web server via php

[myitanalyst]

I am posting to a web service that require user authentication. I simply clear security in the normal dialog box and all is well.

However I need to do this via a php script. I have everything ready to go other than trying to pass user and security to the site when posting.

How can I do this. The user is an actual email address and the a password.

I have tried the formation [url]http://user@pw:www.postpage.com/post/[/url] but since the user is an email address with the @ sign it seems to crap out. I haven't done this before so any help would be greatful.

Thanks

[etully]

I don't know the answer for sure but I'd start by testing these two things. First, try url_encode() on the username before you put it in the string. That should convert the @ sign into hex so that it's a valid URL. If that doesn't work, you might consider using Curl to connect to the remote service. Curl lets you specify user and password and it should handle funky characters in those strings.

[myitanalyst]

Found it... had to use the following:

$headers .= "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode($this->user.":".$this->pass)."\r\n";