HTTP Basic Auth in RESTful API with PHP

Question

I'm using Fat Free Framework for a small RESTful API. I want the user to authenticate for each requests with HTTP Basic Auth like this:

http://user:sha1(pass)@server.org/[...]

My problem is that I can't get these credentials. Our client (Browser: AJAX Request with jQuery) sends them 100%, but I cant find anything in $_SERVER in PHP.

It looks like Apache doesn't forward user + pass to PHP.

Does anyone know why not? And how I can realize HTTP Basic Auth with PHP?

best regards

If you're only sha1-hashing your users' passwords, you should read this article: php.net/manual/en/faq.passwords.php — Ronni Egeriis Persson
– Ronni Egeriis Persson, Commented Jul 31, 2014 at 12:49

Ronni Egeriis Persson · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-31 12:48:18Z

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You should be able to find the username and password in $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'].

There's a great article on php.net on this topic: http://php.net/manual/en/features.http-auth.php

answered Jul 31, 2014 at 12:48

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Tobi Over a year ago

Exactly this is what it should be like - but its not working! Both are empty.....

Ronni Egeriis Persson Over a year ago

@Tobi It looks like there are some hints in the comments on the article I linked to. Try searching for "apache" on that page.

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