$username='ABC';
    $password='XYZ';
    $URL='<URL>';

    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$URL);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30); //timeout after 30 seconds
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");
    $status_code = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);   //get status code
    $result=curl_exec ($ch);
    curl_close ($ch);