Retrieve username, password parameters passed through curl

Question

I am trying to send username and password parameters to a url using curl, and I want to retrieve them. I send the parameters to a page, like the following:

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Answer 1

you can find the username and password in the global $_SERVER array

$_SERVER : array
(
     ....
    'PHP_AUTH_USER' => 'the_username'
    'PHP_AUTH_PW' => 'the_password'
)

Answer 2

Some of the parameters, like CURLOPT_USERAGENT are send in the HTTP headers and can be retrieved using special globals like $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] (see http://www.php.net/manual/de/reserved.variables.server.php).

Others, like CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER are only local to CURL and don't get send to the server.

Answer 3

to send parameters to a web page you can use 1 of two methods GET or POST

GET is where the parameters are appended to the name of the resource you are getting

e.g $url = "http://localhost/sample.php?name=" . urlencode( $value )

the other choice is via a POST. post is sent to the server as a page of information to do this with curl you create a post with

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'name=' . urlencode( $value ) . '&name2=' . urlencode( $value2 ));

If on the other hand you are talking about Headers, then you can access them through the $_SERVER['headername'] array.

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Answer 4

By default, cURL issues an HTTP GET request. In this case, you'd have to append the parameters to the URL you're calling:

$curl = curl_init('http://localhost/sample.php?foo=bar&baz=zoid');

In sample.php, $_GET['bar'] and $_GET['baz'] would be available respectively. If it's a POST request, you want to issue, you'll need to set the parameters via curl_setopt:

$curl = curl_init('http://localhost/sample.php');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'foo=bar&baz=zoid');