Issue
I am a beginner with building a rest api and authentication. I've just been reading the following and explains a very simple setup:
laravel 5 rest api basic authentication
At the bottom the article explains not to send usernames and password with headers or in the url.
My question is basicly: can anyone give me an example how to use a cUrl request with the example above?
For example:
$service_url = 'http://example.com/api/conversations';
$curl = curl_init($service_url);
$curl_post_data = array(
'user' => '[email protected]',
'passw' => '1234'
);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $curl_post_data);
$curl_response = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
Solution
Laravel is shipped with Guzzle – an advanced HTTP client library. It's probably more reasonable to use that than a low-level cURL.
To do basic auth with Guzzle:
$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->post('http://example.com/api/conversations', [
'auth' => [
'[email protected]',
'1234'
]
]);
The response will be in $response->getBody();
If your target endpoint uses SSL – it's not too bad sending the credentials in the headers, but the trendy way is to use temporary tokens (eg. API key or OAuth access token).
Answered By - Denis Mysenko