curl with basic http auth not working

Question

I'm trying to connect to a WS using curl. My code :

$url ="https://example?param=ee&param2=rr";
$headers = array(
'Content-Type:application/json',
'Authorization: Basic '. base64_encode("username:password") // <---
);
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER,true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

//curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'username:passwrd');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$curl_response = curl_exec($curl);

I get this error:

 'content_type' => NULL, 'http_code' => 0, 'header_size' => 0, 
 'request_size' => 0, 'filetime' => -1, 'ssl_verify_result' => 0, 
 'redirect_count' => 0, 'total_time' => 0.051353999999999997, 
 'namelookup_time' => 0.0032659999999999998, 
 'connect_time' => 0.051365000000000001, 'pretransfer_time' => 0,
 'size_upload' => 0, 'size_download' => 0, 'speed_download' => 0,
 'speed_upload' => 0, 'download_content_length' => -1, 
 'upload_content_length' => -1, 'starttransfer_time' => 0, 
 'redirect_time' => 0, 'certinfo' => array ( ), 
 'primary_ip' => '185.18.224.30', 'primary_port' => 443, 
 'local_ip' => '172.23.155.94', 'local_port' => 44608, 
 'redirect_url' => '', )error occured during curl exec.

I can't figure out the error in my code. Have a missed a parameter?

Any reason you are not using CURLOPT_USERPWD, instead of assembling the authorization header yourself? — C3roe
– C3roe, Commented Nov 11, 2016 at 12:23

SergeyLebedev · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-11 11:50:54Z

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Try to add:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

By default when you use HTTPS protocol, CURL checks SSL sertificate on your server and gives an error if it is not valid. The line above turns this off.

edited Nov 11, 2016 at 11:50

answered Nov 11, 2016 at 11:44

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Mm-Art-In Over a year ago

While this could be correct, it's worth noting that it's extremely bad practise to turn off cURL verification as the TLS secured site might as well not be secured if it can't be authenticated. (Fixing this Verification is probably another issue, however). reference

Sinsil Mathew · Accepted Answer · 2016-11-11 12:11:04Z

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$url ="https://example?";
            $headers = array(
                                'Content-Type:application/json',
                                'Authorization: Basic '. base64_encode("username:password") 
                            );
            $ch = curl_init();
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"param=ee&param2=rr");
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
            curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);   

          // execute the request

            $output = curl_exec($ch);

answered Nov 11, 2016 at 12:11

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2 Comments

Mm-Art-In Over a year ago

can you edit you answer and explain what you changed and why your code works?

Dev DOS Over a year ago

thx but I'm I'm using get method so I don't need curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");

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