mE.e26 - HTTP-Auth File Retrieval
I made this function when I wanted to use an API which required HTTP Authentication. The script uses a cache file as not to overwhelm the server.
How?
The function checks to see if a cache exists and if the cache was updated recently. If not then it will download the file. This function was made to be used in conjunction with other scripts. A typical call to this function is included before the function. You could then use xslt to transform the output of the function into html to go on a web-page.
Requirements
A php install with --with-curl=[DIR]. You will need a text file to act
as the cache, this file should have the appropriate permissions to be written in to.