What is the best way to grab and process the content of a page that is protected by htaccess in PHP?

When trying to grab and process the content of a page that is protected by htaccess in PHP, you can use cURL to make a request with the necessary credentials to access the protected page. This involves setting the CURLOPT_USERPWD option with the username and password for authentication. 

<?php
$url = 'https://example.com/protected_page';
$username = 'your_username';
$password = 'your_password';

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

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

// Process the content of the protected page here
echo $response;
?>

Keywords

htaccess PHP authentication cURL scraping

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