[RESOLVED] headers and gData Athourization

[longtone]

I want to get a user's Youtube profile through the gData API

After successfully requesting a token, I run this code, but get a 401 error - user authntication required

<?php
//Get Token
 if (isset( $_GET['token'])) {
$token = $_GET['token'];
}

//Authorise
	header('Authorization: AuthSub token="' . $token . '"' );
	header('X-GData-Key: key="my_developer_key" ');

//Request profile
echo file_get_contents("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default") ;
 ?>

Still get the same error though

This is what they're asking for:

When you make an authenticated API request using an AuthSub authentication token, your request needs to specify the Authorization HTTP request header as shown in the example below. Note: In this document, sample requests use AuthSub syntax unless otherwise specified.

Authorization: AuthSub token=<authentication_token>
X-GData-Key: key=<developer_key>

Am I doing the right thing with the headers at all?

[dagon]

try fsockopen and fputs for the headers, im not sure about setting a header before calling file_get_contents, since no connection exists your not setting a header for that connection.

[Weedpacket]

dagon wrote:

im not sure about setting a header before calling file_get_contents, since no connection exists your not setting a header for that connection.

Exactly. What you're doing is sending those headers back to whoever queried your page; the youtube query is a completely different request.

[longtone]

Thanks, that all makes sense.
I guess I need to learn a bit of cURL

[dagon]

curl is one option, but just using fsockopen and fputs is another