Using POST in a header() call

Anon

Hi all,

Been racking my brains on this for a while now, and thought I'd see if anyone has run into this before -

What I'm trying to do is to take some form input, validate that input, and on successfull validation, redirect via a header call to to an application running on another domain.

My only problem is that the request method for the redirect needs to be 'POST' (that is, the validated form data needs to be 'posted' to the application on the other domain, along with the user being redirected to that same resource.

Is this possible to even do?

I've read the article on using fsockopen() in conjunction with fputs() to write to an open socket on the remote server, but the issue for me is getting both the user and the data there in the same POST request.

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

Sincere thanks in advance,

Gavin

Anon

Well.. does it HAVE to POST? does the recieving site only accpt POSTed input? if no, then just use a

header("Location: http://www.somedomain.cx/superscipt.phtml?var1=value&var2=value&var3=value");

That would be the easiest way.

or you can use the fsockopen/puts and then displaya nd filter the input on your own page. but..bleh..why waste all that time?

Anon

Sadly, the POST part is a requirement.

And yes, I do know how to do the fsockopen/puts part, but that doesn't tell me how to get the query string and the user to the outside app via a POST request simultaneously =0(

<sigh>

I'll just have to spit out an interim form for now with the vars in hidden form fields. . . .

Thanks a bunch anyhow =)

Anon

hi, you might wanna use a session to store the details and when you're done with the details, the session can be deleted by either the user of when closing the browser.

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Anon

Huh?

What does that have to do with the first post in this thread? Inquiring minds want to know. . . . lol

Anon

Not sure exactly what you want to do but I use a function called "PostIt" from
http://www.holotech.net/

It allows you to http post data to a server and returns the resulting output (HTML, XML whatever. Very handy.