How can one retrieve data from an htaccess-secured area in a PHP script?

To retrieve data from an htaccess-secured area in a PHP script, you can use PHP's cURL library to make an HTTP request to the secured area with the appropriate credentials. This will allow you to access the data protected by the htaccess authentication. 

<?php
$username = 'username';
$password = 'password';
$url = 'https://example.com/secure-area/data.txt';

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");

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

echo $result;
?>

Keywords

htaccess secured area PHP script authentication file access

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