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

This dint work when I used Guzzlev6 and used the advice from @amenadiel. When you use curl, your syntax would look something like

curl -u someone@gmail.com:password http://service.com

behind the scenes it actually takes the "someone@gmail.com:password" bit, base64 encodes it and sends the request with an "Authorization" Header with the encoded value. For this example, that will be:

Authorization: Basic c29tZW9uZUBnbWFpbC5jb206cGFzc3dvcmQ=

Advice from @amenadiel appended an "auth: username,password" header and hence, my authentication kept failing. To achieve this successfully, just craft the header when you are instantiating a Guzzle Client request, i.e

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$credentials = base64_encode('someone@gmail.com:password');
$response = $client->get('http://www.server.com/endpoint', [
    'Authorization' => ['Basic '.$credentials]
]);

That would append the header as curl would, and whatever service you are trying to connect to will stop yelling at you,

Cheers.

Answer 2

According to the Guzzle 6 documentation, you can do a request with basic authorization as simple as this:

$client = new Client();

$response = $client->request(
    'POST', /*instead of POST, you can use GET, PUT, DELETE, etc*/
    $url,
    [
      'auth' => ['username', 'password'] /*if you don't need to use a password, just leave it null*/
    ] 
);

echo $response->getBody();

NOTE: You don't need to use base64_encode() at all because it already does it before the request.

I've tested and it works :)

See more at: Guzzle 6 Documentation