Ok, well, we have decided to go through the exec command in php. We don't
have much time to deal with the source code, even though, it would be a
good idea during spare times! But I am way well busy during my spare time!

I really appreciate your help, Daniel, Diana and Patrick. Thanks a lot, I
learnt a lot through those threads and many readings about cURL and php.

My conclusion to all this would be: cURL works fine with PHP as long as
there is no other type than Basic authentication or none to access a url.
The command
curl_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_DIGEST);
doesn't work with PHP 4.3.3
Maybe it will be supported in PHP 5.

The only way to go around is to use an exec command inside your PHP code.
Here is a snippet of the code I've written:

$curl_path = "c:\\somefolder\\curl\\curl.exe"; //should be a relative path
instead of absolute.
$command = `$curl_path --digest -o"somefile.xyz" -u"usrname:pssw"
"http://www.site.com/xyz/yzx/file.xyz"`; //notice the ` ` to do the exec.
This allows you not to use '\' in the string.

where '--digest' is the argument to set a Digest authentication process
with the server (in relation with the -u argument).

All of this are well documented on this site.

I hope this helped.

Cheers.

Chris

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Received on 2004-01-06