How do I do HTTP basic authentication using Guzzle?

Question

I want to do basic access authentication using Guzzle and I am very new to programming. I have no clue what to do. I tried to do this using curl but my environment requires

Answer 1

You can also configure the auth params when instantiating the client instead of adding it to each request:

$this->client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client([                                                                                                                                             
    'base_uri' => $this->endpoint,                                                                                                                                                   
    'headers' => [                                                                                                                                                                   
        'Authorization' => ['Basic'.base64_encode($this->username.':'.$this->password)],                                                                                                 
    ],                                                                                                                                                                               
]);

Here are the various doc links for Guzzle 6:

• Creating a Client
• Request Options
• Auth Request Options

Answer 2

According to what @bourgeois247 said about base64 encoding, the following worked perfectly for me on Guzzle 6:

$client = new Client();
$credentials = base64_encode('username:password');
$response = $client->post('url',
        [
            'headers' => [
                'Authorization' => 'Basic ' . $credentials,
            ],
        ]);

Answer 3

If you're using Guzzle 5.0 or newer, the docs say that basic auth is specified using the auth parameter:

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->get('http://www.server.com/endpoint', [
    'auth' => [
        'username', 
        'password'
    ]
]);

Please note that the syntax is different if you're using Guzzle 3.0 or earlier. The constructor is different, and you also need to explicitly use the send method on a request to get a response:

$client = new Guzzle\Http\Client();
$request = $client->get('http://www.server.com/endpoint');
$request->setAuth('username', 'password');
$response = $request->send();

Answer 4

If you use it with symfony, you can also define it in your configuration file (config/packages/eight_points_guzzle.yaml for symfony4 or flex or config.yml for the other version)

In your configuration file :

eight_points_guzzle:
    clients:         
        your_service:
            # Write here the host where to do requests
            base_url: "yourURL"

            options:
                timeout: 30
                auth:
                    - yourLogin     # login
                    - yourPassword # password
            plugin: ~

Then, in your service, controller, etc....

$client  = $this->getContainer()->get('eight_points_guzzle.client.your_service');
$response = $client->get('yourRoute');

See : https://packagist.org/packages/eightpoints/guzzle-bundle

Answer 5

In additional to @amenadiel answer. Sometimes handy specify auth parameters in constructor:

$client = new Client([
    'auth' => ['username', 'password'],
]); 

Then every request will use this default auth parameters.

Answer 6

$response = $client->request( 'GET', 'your_url', [
                    'auth'    => [
                        'your_username',
                        'your_password'
                    ],
                    'headers' => [
                        'if you want to pass something in the headers'
                    ]
                ]
            );