I spent a good five hours trying to figure this out, so hopefully it will save someone else some time.
When you are trying to download a file via ftp through an HTTP proxy note that the following will not be enough:
<?php
$opts = array('ftp' => array(
'proxy' => 'tcp://vbinprst10:8080',
'request_fulluri'=>true,
'header' => array(
"Proxy-Authorization: Basic $auth"
)
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$s = file_get_contents("ftp://anonymous:[email protected]",false,$context);
?>
Your proxy will respond that authentication is required. You may scratch your head and think "but I'm providing authentication!"
The issue is that the 'header' value is only applicable to http connections. So to authenticate on a proxy, you first have to pull a file from HTTP, before the context is valid for using on FTP.
<?php
$opts = array('ftp' => array(
'proxy' => 'tcp://vbinprst10:8080',
'request_fulluri'=>true,
'header' => array(
"Proxy-Authorization: Basic $auth"
)
),
'http' => array(
'proxy' => 'tcp://vbinprst10:8080',
'request_fulluri'=>true,
'header' => array(
"Proxy-Authorization: Basic $auth"
)
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$s = file_get_contents("http://www.example.com",false,$context);
$s = file_get_contents("ftp://anonymous:[email protected]",false,$context);
?>
It's a bit roundabout, but it works. Note that the 'header' val in the ftp array is redundant, but I kept it in anyway.