Search with POST

WPT

If a site has a search system and the method that passes the textbox value is POST, is there any way that I can navigate directly to the page where the search results are displayed?

Thanks.

bpat1434

No, there is not. You'd have to either allow the search page to accept $GET variables as well, or create another page which will take $GET, populate the $_POST with it, and forward the results back.

dagon

if it was some one else's site you could use curl, if its your own then the get option is much better idea

bretticus

WPT;10881623 wrote:
If a site has a search system and the method that passes the textbox value is POST, is there any way that I can navigate directly to the page where the search results are displayed?

Thanks.

You can, but you have to give it post data. If you mean "...is there any way that I can navigate directly to the page..." with a browser in the conventional manner than the answer is still no.

Now, the difference between GET and POST is that in GET the data is in the URL. In POST, the data is in the httpd header. Thus, with php, or curl, etc, you can do this. In fact here is an example of doing this with just plain old fopen

WPT

bretticus;10881742 wrote:
Now, the difference between GET and POST is that in GET the data is in the URL. In POST, the data is in the httpd header. Thus, with php, or curl, etc, you can do this. In fact here is an example of doing this with just plain old fopen

Thank You, that was exactly what I needed.