gistfile1.txt

<?php

$username = 'trololololol';
$password = 'trololololol';
$url = 'http://some-project.localdev/';

// Set some curl options.
$ch = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($ch, array(
    CURLOPT_HEADER => false, // This is default and could be omitted?
    CURLOPT_NOBODY => false, // Also default.
    CURLOPT_URL => $url,
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST => 0, // Get an SSL cert, you cheapskate.
    CURLOPT_USERPWD => $username . ':' . $password,
    CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH => CURLAUTH_BASIC,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, // Return the transfer as a string of the return value of curl_exec() instead of outputting it out directly to stdout.
));


// Pull the whole thing in to a variable.
$html = curl_exec($ch);

// Close the connection.
curl_close($ch);

echo $html;