HTTP Authentication with PHP's Zend XML RPC Client

Question

I am using the Zend library's XML RPC Client in a PHP application to pull data from another server over XML RPC. However the other server is using HTTP basic authentication. How can I tell the XMLRPC client to use authentication for the requests?

Answer 1

Zend_XmlRpc_Client internally uses a Zend_Http_Client which handles the basic HTTP communication. You can retrieve the HTTP client with:

$httpClient = $rpcClient->getHttpClient();

and then you can set the requires authentication parameters:

$httpClient->setAuth($username, $password, Zend_Http_Client::AUTH_BASIC);