$request_xml = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<request>
	<id>12345</id>
	<email>eoin@dolepaddy.com</email>
<request>";
 
//Initialize handle and set options
$username = 'dolepaddy';
$password = 'secret123';
$ch = curl_init(); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://c...content-available-to-author-only...r.com/xmlrpc'); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $username.':'.$password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request_xml); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Connection: close'));
 
//Execute the request and also time the transaction ( optional )
$start = array_sum(explode(' ', microtime()));
$result = curl_exec($ch); 
$stop = array_sum(explode(' ', microtime()));
$totalTime = $stop - $start;
 
//Check for errors ( again optional )
if ( curl_errno($ch) ) {
	$result = 'ERROR -> ' . curl_errno($ch) . ': ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
	$returnCode = (int)curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
	switch($returnCode){
		case 200:
			break;
		default:
			$result = 'HTTP ERROR -> ' . $returnCode;
			break;
	}
}
 
//Close the handle
curl_close($ch);
 
//Output the results and time
echo 'Total time for request: ' . $totalTime . "\n";
echo $result; 

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