Redirect to WHM using a php script

Hi,

I am trying to write a php script which when executed from the browser, will redirect and login to the WHM and am looking forward to some help regarding the same.

I have read through a similar post (old, though).. http://forums.cpanel.net/f42/help-whm-login-script-php-161349.html

My scenario:
Trying using curl to execute json-api, like applist works:

PHP:

        $api = "applist";
        $query = "https://$ip:2087/json-api/$api";

        $curl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,0);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,0);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
        $header[0] = "Authorization: WHM $whmusername:" . preg_replace("'(\r|\n)'","",$remotekey); // remotekey stored in db as TEXT
        curl_setopt($curl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$header);
        curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $query);
        $result = curl_exec($curl);
        curl_close($curl);
        if ($result == false) {
            return FALSE; // error
        }
        
        return json_decode($result, true);


But trying to get the same idea executed via php header() is failing for me:

PHP:

            $srv_info = array(
                "ip" => $row->s_ip,
                "username" => $row->user_name,
                "remotekey" => $row->remote_key
            );
            
            $ip = $srv_info["ip"];
            $whmusername = $srv_info["username"];
            $remotekey = $srv_info["remotekey"];
            
            header("Authorization: WHM $whmusername:" . preg_replace("'(\r|\n)'","",$remotekey));
            header("Location: http://" . $ip . ":2086/");

            // Also tried:

            // header("Authorization: WHM $whmusername:" . preg_replace("'(\r|\n)'","",$remotekey) . "\r\n");
            // header("Location: https://" . $ip . ":2087/");


Using the header() stuff, even json calls fail, say if I change to:

PHP:

            header("Authorization: WHM $whmusername:" . preg_replace("'(\r|\n)'","",$remotekey));
            header("Location: http://" . $ip . ":2086/json-api/applist");


.. and when I load this php script, it redirects to ../applist with the following error:

Code:

{"cpanelresult":{"apiversion":"2","error":"Access denied","data":{"reason":"Access denied","result":"0"},"type":"text"}}

I am sure the remotekey is corret, as curl api calls (first code block) function fine for me.

I played around with the code from http://forums.cpanel.net/f42/help-whm-login-script-php-161349.html but without success. I always end up with the WHM login screen, or its login prompt.

What to do? Help..!!

 

Digging further, this PHP implementation of LogMeIn works fine and seems to serve my purpose: https://gist.github.com/4440574

But I would prefer authenticating using remote key only.. Is there any way of tweaking the logmein to post remotekey to <whm>/login/ url.. and then generate url with session id and redirect page, as done in logmein?

 

David,

Thank you for your clarification. Much appreciated.