Making a HTTP GET request with HTTP-Basic authentication

Question

I need to build a proxy for a Flash Player project I\'m working on. I simply need to make a HTTP GET request with HTTP-Basic authentication to another URL, and serve the res

Answer 1

Marc B did a great job of answering this question. I recently took his approach and wanted to share the resulting code.

array(
    'method'=>"GET",
    'header' => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode("$username:$password")                 
  )
);

$context = stream_context_create($opts);

// Open the file using the HTTP headers set above
$file = file_get_contents($remote_url, false, $context);

print($file);

?>

I hope that this is helpful to people!