Redirecting user via post

Hi

I just made a script that gets a bunch of login info and I've come across a
hurdle that I failed to think about it.. and now think I may have wasted my
time...

The login info I retreive needs to be POSTed to another site. Everything is
beautiful, except now I don't know how to go about it..

I could use Location: URL but I have to chuck on the login info in the URL
which would then be visible to the naked eye.

Is there a way to POST it.. ? Been a while since I messed with web stuff so
any help appreciated.

Please help.

TIA

re: Redirecting user via post

"Brendan" <bjg@adsl.onnet> wrote in message
news:40894965$1@duster.adelaide.on.net...[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> I just made a script that gets a bunch of login info and I've come across[/color]
a[color=blue]
> hurdle that I failed to think about it.. and now think I may have wasted[/color]
my[color=blue]
> time...
>
> The login info I retreive needs to be POSTed to another site. Everything[/color]
is[color=blue]
> beautiful, except now I don't know how to go about it..
>
> I could use Location: URL but I have to chuck on the login info in the URL
> which would then be visible to the naked eye.
>
> Is there a way to POST it.. ? Been a while since I messed with web stuff[/color]
so[color=blue]
> any help appreciated.[/color]

Use the HTTP status code 307:

header("HTTP/1.0 307 Temporary Redirect");
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");

When the incoming request is a POST, the browser post to the redirected page
as well. Note that in some non-standard browsers a warning would appear.

re: Redirecting user via post

Chung Leong <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> The login info I retreive needs to be POSTed to another site. Everything[/color]
> is[color=green]
>> beautiful, except now I don't know how to go about it..
>>
>> I could use Location: URL but I have to chuck on the login info in the URL
>> which would then be visible to the naked eye.
>>
>> Is there a way to POST it.. ? Been a while since I messed with web stuff[/color]
> so[color=green]
>> any help appreciated.[/color]
>
> Use the HTTP status code 307:
>
> header("HTTP/1.0 307 Temporary Redirect");
> header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
>
> When the incoming request is a POST, the browser post to the redirected page
> as well. Note that in some non-standard browsers a warning would appear.[/color]

My guess is this is not what the OP acutally wants. Unless he wants to
redirect the browser to the other site (in that case pointing the action
directly to the site might be easier).

My guess is that he wants to do the post from within his own php, in
that case he could take a look at curl, snoopy
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/) or an code snipper I once
posted here
(http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...%40news.tue.nl)

--

Daniel Tryba

re: Redirecting user via post

"Chung Leong" <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:nbWdnQa8uvt8KhTdRVn-uw@comcast.com...[color=blue]
> "Brendan" <bjg@adsl.onnet> wrote in message
> news:40894965$1@duster.adelaide.on.net...[color=green]
> > Hi
> >
> > I just made a script that gets a bunch of login info and I've come[/color][/color]
across[color=blue]
> a[color=green]
> > hurdle that I failed to think about it.. and now think I may have wasted[/color]
> my[color=green]
> > time...
> >
> > The login info I retreive needs to be POSTed to another site. Everything[/color]
> is[color=green]
> > beautiful, except now I don't know how to go about it..
> >
> > I could use Location: URL but I have to chuck on the login info in the[/color][/color]
URL[color=blue][color=green]
> > which would then be visible to the naked eye.
> >
> > Is there a way to POST it.. ? Been a while since I messed with web stuff[/color]
> so[color=green]
> > any help appreciated.[/color]
>
> Use the HTTP status code 307:
>
> header("HTTP/1.0 307 Temporary Redirect");
> header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
>
> When the incoming request is a POST, the browser post to the redirected[/color]
page[color=blue]
> as well. Note that in some non-standard browsers a warning would appear.[/color]

Excellent! That works great, thanks.

re: Redirecting user via post

"Daniel Tryba" <news_comp.lang.php@canopus.nl> wrote in message
news:c6cjpj$5sn$2@news.tue.nl...[color=blue]
> Chung Leong <chernyshevsky@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
> >> The login info I retreive needs to be POSTed to another site.[/color][/color][/color]
Everything[color=blue][color=green]
> > is[color=darkred]
> >> beautiful, except now I don't know how to go about it..
> >>
> >> I could use Location: URL but I have to chuck on the login info in the[/color][/color][/color]
URL[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
> >> which would then be visible to the naked eye.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to POST it.. ? Been a while since I messed with web[/color][/color][/color]
stuff[color=blue][color=green]
> > so[color=darkred]
> >> any help appreciated.[/color]
> >
> > Use the HTTP status code 307:
> >
> > header("HTTP/1.0 307 Temporary Redirect");
> > header("Location: http://www.example.com/");
> >
> > When the incoming request is a POST, the browser post to the redirected[/color][/color]
page[color=blue][color=green]
> > as well. Note that in some non-standard browsers a warning would appear.[/color]
>
> My guess is this is not what the OP acutally wants. Unless he wants to
> redirect the browser to the other site (in that case pointing the action
> directly to the site might be easier).[/color]

It's a bit more than that. I need to check a radio option that the user
selects, and then the form data they entered gets posted to the site
depending on what radio option they selected.
[color=blue]
> My guess is that he wants to do the post from within his own php, in
> that case he could take a look at curl, snoopy
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/) or an code snipper I once
> posted here
> (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...%40news.tue.nl)[/color]

Thanks for your help.

re: Redirecting user via post

"Daniel Tryba" <news_comp.lang.php@canopus.nl> wrote in message
news:c6cjpj$5sn$2@news.tue.nl...[color=blue]
>
> My guess is this is not what the OP acutally wants. Unless he wants to
> redirect the browser to the other site (in that case pointing the action
> directly to the site might be easier).
>
> My guess is that he wants to do the post from within his own php, in
> that case he could take a look at curl, snoopy
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/) or an code snipper I once
> posted here
> (http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...%40news.tue.nl)[/color]

But then the user doesn't get redirected to the other site. If you need to
alter the form data before the redirection occurs, I think the only way is
to generate a form with the altered data in hidden fields, then submit the
form automatically using Javascript.