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php - grabbing a page by url (that requires auth)

DonkeyStyle \o/ · 2008-09-27 20:09:06

I've toyed around with this before and hit a dead end... What I'm trying to do is write a php script that'll retrieve a page of html from my router's config interface (for logging and processing stats). The only problem is that the page requires authentication (in the form of a pop-up box, which looks like the .htaccess…

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27-09-2008 9:09pm

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DonkeyStyle \o/

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I've toyed around with this before and hit a dead end...
What I'm trying to do is write a php script that'll retrieve a page of html from my router's config interface (for logging and processing stats).

The only problem is that the page requires authentication (in the form of a pop-up box, which looks like the .htaccess one).
What I'm not sure how to do is send the username/password with my request.

Can someone point me in the direction of what functions I should be looking at?

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#2 27-09-2008 9:10pm
Webmonkey

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Usually you can access a page like that using:

http://username:thepassword@http://192.168.0.1.

Alternatively if using something like cURL - you can pass it as a parameter afaik.

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#3 27-09-2008 9:28pm
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Take a look at PHP Curl. It's designed for logging into sites, testing, screen scraping, etc...

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#4 27-09-2008 9:43pm
DonkeyStyle \o/

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Cheers guys, I'll check out Curl.

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