php - File-get-contents failed to open stream Unauthorized

Question

I am trying to use file_get_contents.I have made sure that allow_url_fopen is enabled in php.ini. As of now it is telling me:

[function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized

All I'm doing is the following, which I can access through browser without a problem.

$url=('http://site/@api/users/=john_smith@site.com/properties');
$xmlString=file_get_contents($url);

I believe this is an authentication issue but not sure how I can supply the proper credentials from within the script itself. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

In your url try:

http://user:password@site/ 

(append whatever the rest of the URL for your API should be)