function init($host, $port, $path, $user, $pass)
    {
        $headers = array(
            sprintf("HTTP_AUTH_LOGIN: %s", $user),
            sprintf("HTTP_AUTH_PASSWD: %s", $pass),
            "Content-Type: text/xml"
        );

        $url        = sprintf("https://%s:%s/%s", $host, $port, $path);
        $this->curl = curl_init();

        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT , 5);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST , 0);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER , false);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER     , $headers);
        curl_setopt($this->curl, CURLOPT_URL            , $url);
    }