Problems with username or pass with colon when setting CURLOPT_USERPWD

Question

We are trying to use curl in PHP5 to login to a website using basic authentication.

Partial code is like this:

Answer 1

It looks like there is no documented solution, but you could try this workaround:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://{$uname}:{$pass}@www.test.com/login.php");

But i have not tested it..