Is it possible to use include() with credentials in the URL to access files for download in PHP?

When using include() in PHP, it is not possible to pass credentials in the URL to access files for download. This is because include() is used to include PHP files and does not support passing credentials in the URL. To access files for download with credentials, you can use file_get_contents() or cURL to make a request to the file with the credentials included in the request headers. 

<?php
$url = 'http://example.com/file-to-download.txt';
$username = 'your_username';
$password = 'your_password';

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

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

file_put_contents('downloaded-file.txt', $data);
?>

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