ErrorDocument and POST variables

[raymie]

Hoping that someone can help.

I have a script which is used in a site when the requested page does not physically exist (the content is all dynamic).

What I am finding however is that there seems to be no passing across of $_POST variables when this is done, the env, server etc as all populated but any post variables seem to be lost.

Anyone have a method to use a 404 script and obtain all of the data passed to the missing page?

[sarahk]

I use the same strategy but the only forms I have are for contact, purchase etc so I don't really want the search engines to get them. I guess if your form was a search for content then that might be a bit different.

Anyway, I'd use actual pathing for forms.

hope this helps.

[raymie]

got this answer elsewhere and it works a treat.

The answer is NOT to use ErrorDocument but instead use...

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule (.*) /handler.php
</IfModule>

within the .htaccess file, not exactly quite as simple perhaps but does exactly what I need.