faking a post to a script

[Anon]

i remember skimming an article, or maybe even a post awhile ago about doing a mock post to a script that would only accept HTTP_METHOD=POST. now i need to figure out how to do this and i don't want to trial and error it all the way out. if anyone can point me to some information on this, i would be vaery appreciative.

thanks.

[dstockto]

There are several ways to assure or at least increase the chances that the user is coming in the way you expect them to:

To find the method they are using:

$REQUEST_METHOD or
$HTTP_ENV_VARS["REQUEST_METHOD"]

to find out if they came from your page:

HTTP_ENV_VARS["HTTP_REFERER"]

make sure this page is the one you submitted the form data from.

To grab your variables:

Either use the standard $varname, or use

$HTTP_POST_VARS['varname']

You can also include some sort of hidden form field that your script checks for when the data is POSTed. All these things together should give you a pretty good clue that the user came from where you expected them to.

Dave