New Bing API Unsupported Authentication in PHP

Question

I have been porting an application at work from the old Bing API to the new one. Having seen several posts about how the new one works in PHP I'm getting Authentication issues with it.

This is the error that is returned by the URL:

Warning: file_get_contents(https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/Image?$format=json&Query=%27%27) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 401 The authorization type you provided is not supported. Only Basic and OAuth are supported in /home/krem81/public_html/classes/class.BingSearch.php on line 178

And in turn, this is the function that I am using to interact with the API:

$accountKey = $this->Appid;

$ServiceRootURL =  "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/";

$WebSearchURL = $ServiceRootURL . 'Image?$format=json&Query=';

$context = stream_context_create(array(
    'http' => array(
        'request_fulluri' => true,
        'header'  => "Authorization: Basic " . base64_encode($accountKey . ":" . $accountKey)
    )
));

$request = $WebSearchURL . urlencode( '\'' . $_POST["searchText"] . '\'');

echo($request);

$this->response = file_get_contents($request, 0, $context);

$this->results = json_decode($this->response);

Since trying this I have also now tried

    $accountKey = $this->Appid;

    $ServiceRootURL =  "https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/";

    $WebSearchURL = $ServiceRootURL . 'Image?$format=json&Query=';

    $request = $WebSearchURL . urlencode( '\'' . $this->keyword . '\'');

    echo($request);

    $process = curl_init($request);
    curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
    curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_USERPWD,  $accountKey . ":" . $accountKey);
    curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
    curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);

    $this->response = curl_exec($process);

    var_dump($this->response);

    $this->results = json_decode($this->response);

    var_dump($this->results);

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be triggering the authentication to fail?

possible duplicate of [Bing search API and Azure](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10844463/bing-search-api-and-azure) — Manse, Aug 07 '12 at 10:16
Unfortunately that thread didn't help, tried all solutions and none of them got me anywhere — Daniel Groves, Aug 07 '12 at 10:17
Have you checked the headers to ensure the key is actually present ? — Manse, Aug 07 '12 at 10:20
That was enough to draw me to the error thankfully. Another team member had changed the format of the Variable from how I wrote it when building the original class from Appid to APPID. Not too sure why I didn't think to check that one strait away. Microsoft could provide a better error message for the missing app id though, something along the lines of 'invalid appid' to help narrow the issue down. Thanks @ManseUK — Daniel Groves, Aug 07 '12 at 10:24

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 17 '13 at 13:03

Here is working example of Search API just replace your access key with "XXXX". Even i wasted quite a few hours to get it work using cURL but it was failing cause of "CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER" on local :(

$url = 'https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search/Web?Query=%27xbox%27';
$process = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "username:XXXX");
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($process, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
$response = curl_exec($process);

# Deliver
return $response;

# Have a great day!
curl_close($process);

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 07 '12 at 10:41

Another team member changed the name of a variable that I guess I really should have checked straight away. $this->Appid should have been $this->APPID.

As I said to ManseUK in the comments though Microsoft could provide a better error message for the missing app id though, something along the lines of 'invalid appid' to help narrow the issue down

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 24 '15 at 09:21

0

A suggestion to reduce traffic and raise speed:
Add Accept-Encoding: gzipand remove the name in the auth. base64_encode(':' . $this->APPID) is all you need.

answered Feb 24 '15 at 09:21

mgutt

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