Encoding password field for HTTP Basic Auth

Ok so if anyone else has this issue, I've found a solution.

Basically you can see in my code above that I was trying to use the cURL PHP methods to set options for CURLOPT_USERPWD and CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH. However somewhere in this the special characters in the password were causing issues with the parsing and I think only a section of it was actually being taken by the server.

However, all that these options do basically is set an HTTP header, as can be seen in @mpyw screenshots. This is the Authorization header, which is in the format below:

`Authorization: Basic [base64 encoded username:password]`

So I got rid of these options and did it manually, by base64 encoding my username:password string myself and then adding a header.

$auth = base64_encode($uname . ":" . $pass);curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Authorization: Basic $auth",                                              "Accept: application/json",                                              "Content-Type: application/json"));

Now it all works fine! Thanks to the guys who posted answers - both of you contributed to me coming up with the workaround.

I compared two ways, enabling verbose outputs.

Emitted headers are the same, except that the PHP does not contain User-Agent header. Does the API require User-Agent header?

Edit

Password that contains '

Password that contains "

I believe that you have to base64_encode the username and password. Try this:

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, base64_encode($uname . ":" . $pass));