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

I took @clone45's code and turned it into a series of functions somewhat like Python's requests interface (enough for my purposes) using only no external code. Maybe it can help someone else.

It handles:

• basic auth
• headers
• GET Params

Usage:

$url = 'http://sweet-api.com/api';
$params = array('skip' => 0, 'top' => 5000);
$header = array('Content-Type' => 'application/json');
$header = addBasicAuth($header, getenv('USER'), getenv('PASS'));
$response = request("GET", $url, $header, $params);
print($response);

Definitions

function addBasicAuth($header, $username, $password) {
    $header['Authorization'] = 'Basic '.base64_encode("$username:$password");
    return $header;
}

// method should be "GET", "PUT", etc..
function request($method, $url, $header, $params) {
    $opts = array(
        'http' => array(
            'method' => $method,
        ),
    );

    // serialize the header if needed
    if (!empty($header)) {
        $header_str = '';
        foreach ($header as $key => $value) {
            $header_str .= "$key: $value\r\n";
        }
        $header_str .= "\r\n";
        $opts['http']['header'] = $header_str;
    }

    // serialize the params if there are any
    if (!empty($params)) {
        $params_array = array();
        foreach ($params as $key => $value) {
            $params_array[] = "$key=$value";
        }
        $url .= '?'.implode('&', $params_array);
    }

    $context = stream_context_create($opts);
    $data = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
    return $data;
}