Accessing a URL protected by htpasswd (Basic Auth) with php

It is possible to access a URL protected by htpasswd with Basic Authentication through php scripts. Here is an example :

array( 'method' => 'POST', 'header' => "Content-Type: text/xml\r\n". "Authorization: Basic ".base64_encode("$https_user:$https_password")."\r\n", 'content' => $body, 'timeout' => 60 ) ); $context = stream_context_create($opts); $result = file_get_contents($url, false, $context, -1, 40000); echo $result; ?>