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Jaydeep Pandya
Jaydeep Pandya

Reputation: 845

curl 401 Unauthorized error

As shown in image when i am trying to run https://www.example.com/Push_Order.php?orderId=1562 It gives me 401 Unathorized error. But when I run this Url in browser it run well.

Any Idea where is my mistake or what i am missing?

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PHP Curl Code 

<?php

$ch = curl_init("https://www.example.com/Push_Order.php?orderId=1562");

curl_setopt($ch);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);
?>

and this Push_Order.php file contains only insert query.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 49274

Answers (2)

Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 4753

I had exactly this error message coming from my Apache2 web server and it took me a little while to diagnose, so I want to document what was wrong for anyone researching the same problem as I had, and landing here.

I assumed incorrectly that my Apache was running fine and I really had an authorization problem, as that is what the message implies. The reality was I had syntax errors in my Apache config files.

If a local curl gives you this

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(character for character the same, give or take a URL and port number,) you might want to check you can happily run

service apache2 reload

before investigating authorization too heavily!

Upvotes: 0

CherryDT
CherryDT

Reputation: 29012

It appears you have authorization enabled in Apache on your server but you don't realize it at the moment because your browser is caching the username and password for you.

You have to set the CURLOPT_USERPWD option like so:

<?php

$ch = curl_init("https://www.example.com/Push_Order.php?orderId=1562");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "myusername:mypassword");

$response = curl_exec($ch);

curl_close($ch);
?>

(The empty curl_setopt($ch) was weird and a no-op at best anyway.)

In the command line it should work just like this (including the username and password in the URL):

curl https://myusername:[email protected]/Push_Order.php?orderId=1562

Upvotes: 12

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