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Posted by Sumit Gupta
Sumit Gupta
Courses Plus Student 35 Points

How to add HTTP Headers for authentication?

I want to add the HTTP headers for authenticating Udemy API access.Can someone point me as to how to add the headers.I already have the client id and secret key.I want to access the API from a wordpress theme.I can parse the JSON feed but i wanted to know as to how to add the HTTP Headers for authentication. https://developers.udemy.com/

Update: I tried this code but it still give me the unauthorized message.

$api_url='https://www.udemy.com/api-1.1/status/'; 
$ch = curl_init($request);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $request);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,array('X-Udemy-Client-Id:MY_ID','X-Udemy-Client-Secret:Secret'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
$results= curl_exec($ch);
$str = file_get_contents('https://www.udemy.com/api-1.1/courses/5816/');
$json = json_decode($str, true); // decode the JSON into an associative array
print_r ($json);

Output: Array ( [error] => Array ( [code] => 401 [message] => Unauthorized - No Client [details] => ) )

1 Answer

miguelcastro2
PLUS
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points
miguelcastro2
miguelcastro2
Courses Plus Student 6,573 Points

You can use the CURL library. The CURLOPT_USERPWD option sets HTTP auth.

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $api_url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, HTTP_USERNAME.":".HTTP_PASSWORD);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    $results= curl_exec($ch);