Windows Azure Authentication for Bing Search in PHP

Question

I am trying to perform a Bing Search by using the Windows Azure Marketplace API, I have downloaded their guide and sample code. The code prepares a HTTPS request with basic

Answer 1

I have solved it and here is what I have found for future people that would be doing the same thing:

I commented out the line where it says:

'proxy' => 'tcp://127.0.0.1:8888',
'request_fulluri' => true,

and also set base64_encode("ignored:".$accountKey) instead

Base on what I read on MSDN, the username part is said to be ignored, so it shouldn't matter what value it is. I was thinking perhaps the length or the special characters in the key screwed things up so I replaces it with ignored (or anything really).

That did the trick and I can parse the returned JSON data. Good luck!