Issue FORM POST Request From PHP using HTTP Basic Authentication

Question

I hope this is a relatively straight forward thing to do, and that my google skills have simply failed me on this occasion. I have a BASIC authentication protected resource

Answer 1

Here's a function I use to perform POST requests. Hopefully it can do what you want:

function http_post($server, $port, $url, $vars) {

// get urlencoded vesion of $vars array 
$urlencoded = ""; 

foreach ($vars as $Index => $Value) 
    $urlencoded .= urlencode($Index ) . "=" . urlencode($Value) . "&"; 

$urlencoded = substr($urlencoded,0,-1);  

$headers = "POST $url HTTP/1.0\r\n" 
. "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n" 
. "Content-Length: ". strlen($urlencoded) . "\r\n\r\n"; 

$fp = fsockopen($server, $port, $errno, $errstr, 10); 
if (!$fp) return "ERROR: fsockopen failed.\r\nError no: $errno - $errstr"; 

fputs($fp, $headers); 
fputs($fp, $urlencoded); 

$ret = ""; 
while (!feof($fp)) $ret .= fgets($fp, 1024); 

fclose($fp); 
return $ret; }

And here's an example of me using it to forward on the POST variables to an API

$response = http_post("www.nochex.com", 80, "/nochex.dll/apc/apc", $_POST);