basic-authentication

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 response from PHP as if the PHP file was the original source. How can I do this? Using file_get_contents() with a stream to specify the HTTP credentials, or use curl and the CURLOPT_USERPWD option. Marc B did a great job of answering this question. I recently took his approach and wanted to share the resulting code. <?PHP $username = "some-username"; $password = "some-password"; $remote_url = 'http://www.somedomain.com/path/to

I know that normally you can login to sites that require HTTP basic authentication with Selenium by passing the username and password in the URL, e.g.: selenium.open("http://myusername:myuserpassword@mydomain.com/mypath"); I've been running a Selenium test with Firefox 2 or 3 and there I still get the "Authentication Required" dialog window? Update: It seems not to be a Selenium problem but rather a Firefox issue. If I enter the URL manually within FF I'll get the authentication dialog, but if I enter the URL in Opera, my page is displayed without showing an authentication dialog. Fabricio

I'm trying to write a REST-API server with NodeJS like the one used by Joyent , and everything is ok except I can't verify a normal user's authentication. If I jump to a terminal and do curl -u username:password localhost:8000 -X GET , I can't get the values username:password on the NodeJS http server. If my NodeJS http server is something like var http = require('http'); http.createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end('Hello World\n'); }).listen(1337, "127.0.0.1"); , shouldn't I get the values username:password somewhere in the req object