apache "Redirect" and form POST vars

[Anon]

we have been using a perl "mailto" script for several years to handle form processing.

I'd like to replace it with a PHP script (naturally :⁾

We have dozens (if not hundreds) of client pages that submit to the perl script, and it's not practicable to try to find / change them all.

I can tell apache to "Redirect" requests to the mailto.pl to a new mailto.php3 file easily enough, but the "HTTP_POST_VARS" environment variable doesn't seem to survive the redirect... (so I can't process the form fields for mailing / storing / whatever...)

Anybody able to help out with this one?

I also tried to make the php3 file executable (ie make it into a shell script) but of course the security features of php won't let this happen over the web..

Thanks in advance...

Brad

[Anon]

I believe you may have to make the post vars to be 'get' vars on the redirect url, put everything in cookies or a session.

Chad

[Anon]

Do you need perl on your website for anything?
It's probably dangerous to do this, just because
perl is so commonplace, but you could tell
apache to treat .pl and/or .cgi as being PHP
files.

[Anon]

Kirk: I could possibly make PHP the handler for .pl files - but I'd have to check for the presence of other .PL files....

I suspect that will not be practical unfortunately!!

Chad: wrt the suggestion to use "GET" instead of "POST" - remember that part of the problem is the installed base of literally hundreds of pages using this script - anything that requires a change to the script METHOD can just as easily be changed by altering the form ACTION to a new PHP file :⁾

(it might come to that yet, of course!!)

But thanks guys for your input ...

anyone else got a thought ?