Portable PHP HTTP(S) GET Request with HTTP Basic Authentication
- May 16th, 2013
- By كارما
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I’m not sure where I found this class years ago (probably the php.net comments) but it’s a handy way to make simple HTTP GET requests in PHP without having to rely on the availability of allow_url_fopen or curl extensions. It supports automatic detection of SSL/TLS and non-default port numbers based on the URL you provide.
I’ve made a minor modification to include support for HTTP Basic Authentication.
class HTTPRequest
{
var $_fp; // HTTP socket
var $_url; // full URL
var $_host; // HTTP host
var $_protocol; // protocol (HTTP/HTTPS)
var $_uri; // request URI
var $_port; // port
var $_user; // HTTP Basic Auth User
var $_pass; // HTTP Basic Auth Password
// scan url
function _scan_url()
{
$req = $this->_url;
$pos = strpos($req, '://');
$this->_protocol = strtolower(substr($req, 0, $pos));
$req = substr($req, $pos+3);
$pos = strpos($req, '/');
if($pos === false)
$pos = strlen($req);
$host = substr($req, 0, $pos);
if(strpos($host, ':') !== false)
{
list($this->_host, $this->_port) = explode(':', $host);
}
else
{
$this->_host = $host;
$this->_port = ($this->_protocol == 'https') ? 443 : 80;
}
$this->_uri = substr($req, $pos);
if($this->_uri == '')
$this->_uri = '/';
}
// constructor
function HTTPRequest($url, $user='', $pass='')
{
$this->_url = $url;
$this->_scan_url();
$this->_user = $user;
$this->_pass = $pass;
}
// download URL to string
function DownloadToString()
{
$crlf = "\r\n";
// generate request
$req = 'GET ' . $this->_uri . ' HTTP/1.0' . $crlf
. 'Host: ' . $this->_host . $crlf;
if(!empty($this->_user))
$req .= "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($this->_user . ':' . $this->_pass) . $crlf;
$req .= $crlf;
// fetch
$this->_fp = fsockopen(($this->_protocol == 'https' ? 'ssl://' : '') . $this->_host, $this->_port);
fwrite($this->_fp, $req);
while(is_resource($this->_fp) && $this->_fp && !feof($this->_fp))
$response .= fread($this->_fp, 1024);
fclose($this->_fp);
// split header and body
$pos = strpos($response, $crlf . $crlf);
if($pos === false)
return($response);
$header = substr($response, 0, $pos);
$body = substr($response, $pos + 2 * strlen($crlf));
// parse headers
$headers = array();
$lines = explode($crlf, $header);
foreach($lines as $line)
if(($pos = strpos($line, ':')) !== false)
$headers[strtolower(trim(substr($line, 0, $pos)))] = trim(substr($line, $pos+1));
// redirection?
if(isset($headers['location']))
{
$http = new HTTPRequest($headers['location']);
return($http->DownloadToString($http));
}
else
{
return($body);
}
}
}
Usage:
$r = new HTTPRequest($url, [username], [password]); $response = $r->DownloadToString();
The username and password variables are optional.
