Posted by Gav on 08/01/07 22:19

In article <op.tweaxlbcqnv3q9@metallium>,
Rik <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:09:27 +0200, Gav <gc@dentrassis.com> wrote:
> > I'm wanting to send POST data to a script, but without it being sent
> > via the action of a form being posted

> Which is perfectly possible using CURL or more wordy with a normal
> fsockopen/fwrite.

Thanks, I'll look at the CURL functions and see it will do what I want.

> > - in other words I want to re-direct
> > to a page but have the POST data filled in for the page to deal with.

> The redirection is not really possible: the client doesn't know what
> post request to send, and at any rate: posts aren't send anymore on a
> redirect

> > Is there a way to do this without using Session control?
> > I don't really want to go and change a whole bunch of old scripts to
> > implement sessions, so I was hoping to be able to use something like
> > header() to fill in the $_POST array before redirecting.

> Nope. If however the receiving script has the same domain, you can just
> request the page yourself on the server and output that directly to
> the user (possibly including headers). Perfectly possible, but a
> nightmare for relative links. You could consider trying to force a
> <base> tag in the head, but I'd call it far from reliable. And your
> page is offcourse not bookmarkable at all.

That's an interesting idea - I'd not thought of doing that.
Thanks Rik for your suggestions.

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Gav

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