Download htaccess protected files using PHP and CURL

here is the working code, you made a mistake on the line with : curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);

$username = "MyUsername";$password = "MyPassword";$url = "http://www.example.com/private/file.pdf";$ch = curl_init();curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);$output = curl_exec($ch);$info = curl_getinfo($ch);curl_close($ch);header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=file.pdf");echo ($output);

There is a CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER option that seems missing. The output you pasted is $info not $output btw. It shows the download happened, download_content_length is 27369.

If you're trying to download a file, you should use CURLOPT_FILE instead of doing a RETURNTRANSFER = true. That'll write the downloaded data out to a file on your system directly, without flood PHP's memory space. Remember, PHP generally runs with a memory limit, and you can easily exceed it by downloading a large file.

Using RETURNTRANSFER is only useful if you're going to be doing in-memory processing of the transferred data, such as loading HTML into the DOM system for parsing.

Try this instead:

$ch = curl_init();curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, false);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FILE, "/name/of/file/to/write/to/on/your/machine");$output = curl_exec($ch);$info = curl_getinfo($ch);curl_close($ch);