.htaccess password auth but allow post request

$username = 'login';$password = 'pass';//...curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);curl_setopt($handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username . ":" . $password);curl_exec($handle);

Here is a example function of how to achieve this.

 function curl_bounce_server( $url, $param ){    try    {        $ch = curl_init();        $username = "your_user";        $password = "your_pass";        // set URL and other appropriate options        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url );        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1 );        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POST,           1 );        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 60 );        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30 );        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC );        curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'json='. $param );         $response = curl_exec( $ch );        curl_close($ch);        return $response;       }    catch ( Exception $exception )    {       return "An exception occurred when executing the server call - exception:" . $exception->getMessage();    }}