Secure Fetch with Curl in PHP

fetch_through_curl.php

<?php

function get_web_page(string $url, string $username, string $password)
{
    $options = array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
        // CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
        // CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
        // CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "spider", // who am i
        CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false     // Disabled SSL Cert checks
    );


    $curl      = curl_init($url);
    curl_setopt_array($curl, $options);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");

    $content = curl_exec($curl);
    $err     = curl_errno($curl);
    $errmsg  = curl_error($curl);
    $header  = curl_getinfo($curl);
    curl_close($curl);

    return [
      "header" => $header,
      "content" => $content,
      "errors" => [$err, "message" => $errmsg]
    ];
}



?>