call drupal api with Apache HTTP auth (basic)

 <?php

// API endpoint

$apiUrl = 'http://localhost/cms/web/api/articles';

// HTTP Basic Authentication credentials

$username = 'xxxx';

$password = 'yyyyyy';

// Initialize cURL session

$ch = curl_init();

// Set cURL options

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $apiUrl);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");

// Execute cURL request

$response = curl_exec($ch);

// Check for cURL errors

if (curl_errno($ch)) {

    http_response_code(500);

    echo json_encode(['error' => 'cURL Error: ' . curl_error($ch)]);

    curl_close($ch);

    exit;

}

// Get HTTP status code

$httpCode = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);

// Close cURL session

curl_close($ch);

// Check HTTP response code

if ($httpCode !== 200) {

    http_response_code($httpCode);

    echo json_encode(['error' => "HTTP Error: $httpCode"]);

    exit;

}

// Return raw JSON response

header('Content-Type: application/json');

echo $response;