Are there any alternative methods to accessing restricted content on a webpage with login requirements besides passing session cookies to PHP scripts?

One alternative method to accessing restricted content on a webpage with login requirements is to use HTTP Basic Authentication. This method involves sending a username and password in the HTTP headers of the request. This can be implemented in PHP by setting the 'Authorization' header with the base64 encoded username and password. 

$url = 'https://example.com/restricted-page';
$username = 'your_username';
$password = 'your_password';

$auth = base64_encode($username . ':' . $password);
$headers = array(
    'Authorization: Basic ' . $auth
);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $response;

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session cookies webpage login requirements PHP scripts alternative methods

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