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Adrian
Adrian

Reputation: 353

Basic web service with authentication using php curl

Need to consume some data from a web service that requires a username/password for access.

The following returns NULL

$service_url = 'https://example.com/2365139.json';
$curl = curl_init($service_url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:password");
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);
$curl_response = curl_exec($curl);
$response = json_decode($curl_response);
curl_close($curl);

var_dump($response);

When I hit https://example.com/2365139.json in a browser, it prompts for un/pw and when I enter them it displays the JSON, so the data is there but something I have written above isn't working.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5917

Answers (1)

Adrian
Adrian

Reputation: 353

Original code works fine, but because the resource is https it requires the following option;

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

The caveat to using this is "This basically causes cURL to blindly accept any server certificate, without doing any verification as to which CA signed it, and whether or not that CA is trusted. If you’re at all concerned about the data you’re passing to or receiving from the server, you’ll want to enable this peer verification properly." - Taken from http://unitstep.net/blog/2009/05/05/using-curl-in-php-to-access-https-ssltls-protected-sites/

Upvotes: 4

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