POST variables with a form

[Gav]

I'm wanting to send POST data to a script, but without it being sent via
the action of a form being posted - in other words I want to re-direct
to a page but have the POST data filled in for the page to deal with.

Is there a way to do this without using Session control?
I don't really want to go and change a whole bunch of old scripts to
implement sessions, so I was hoping to be able to use something like
header() to fill in the $_POST array before redirecting.

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Gav

[dkruger]

On Aug 1, 1:09 pm, Gav <[e-mail]:

I'm wanting to send POST data to a script, but without it being sent via
the action of a form being posted - in other words I want to re-direct
to a page but have the POST data filled in for the page to deal with.

Is there a way to do this without using Session control?
I don't really want to go and change a whole bunch of old scripts to
implement sessions, so I was hoping to be able to use something like
header() to fill in the $_POST array before redirecting.

--
Gav

Instead of using post, you could send the data on the address bar
using GET instead of POST. You use it basically just like $_POST,
except that you use $_GET instead, all of the variables are passed in
the url with get as well, which maybe would make this method unuseful.

[dkruger]

On Aug 1, 1:09 pm, Gav <[e-mail]:

I'm wanting to send POST data to a script, but without it being sent via
the action of a form being posted - in other words I want to re-direct
to a page but have the POST data filled in for the page to deal with.

Is there a way to do this without using Session control?
I don't really want to go and change a whole bunch of old scripts to
implement sessions, so I was hoping to be able to use something like
header() to fill in the $_POST array before redirecting.

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Gav

Or add your variables and data directly to the URL to make the
receiving script think the form was posted with GET method.

[Rik]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:09:27 +0200, Gav <[e-mail]:

I'm wanting to send POST data to a script, but without it being sent via
the action of a form being posted

Which is perfectly possible using CURL or more wordy with a normal
fsockopen/fwrite.

- in other words I want to re-direct
to a page but have the POST data filled in for the page to deal with.

The redirection is not really possible: the client doesn't know what post
request to send, and at any rate: posts aren't send anymore on a redirect

Is there a way to do this without using Session control?
I don't really want to go and change a whole bunch of old scripts to
implement sessions, so I was hoping to be able to use something like
header() to fill in the $_POST array before redirecting.

Nope. If however the receiving script has the same domain, you can just
request the page yourself on the server and output that directly to the
user (possibly including headers). Perfectly possible, but a nightmare for
relative links. You could consider trying to force a <basetag in the
head, but I'd call it far from reliable. And your page is offcourse not
bookmarkable at all.

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Rik Wasmus

[Gav]

In article <11**********************@22g2000hsm.googlegroups. com>,
dkruger <da*********@techie.comwrote:

On Aug 1, 1:09 pm, I wrote:

I'm wanting to send POST data to a script, but without it being sent
via the action of a form being posted - in other words I want to
re-direct to a page but have the POST data filled in for the page to
deal with.

Is there a way to do this without using Session control?
I don't really want to go and change a whole bunch of old scripts to
implement sessions, so I was hoping to be able to use something like
header() to fill in the $_POST array before redirecting.

Instead of using post, you could send the data on the address bar
using GET instead of POST. You use it basically just like $_POST,
except that you use $_GET instead, all of the variables are passed in
the url with get as well, which maybe would make this method unuseful.

Firstly, I should just point out that I got the subject line wrong, it
should have read _without_ a form - oops! Hopefully everyone understood
from the my posting what I was meaning.
Anyway, thanks for your suggestion David. I didn't want to use GET as I
don't want the data to be visible, and in any case, that still means
changing the way the receiving script(s) handles the data that is
passed to it, which I didn't want to have to alter. If was going to
alter the original scripts I would make them use session control.

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Gav

[Gav]

In article <op.tweaxlbcqnv3q9@metallium>,
Rik <lu************@hotmail.comwrote:

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:09:27 +0200, Gav <[e-mail]:

I'm wanting to send POST data to a script, but without it being sent
via the action of a form being posted

Which is perfectly possible using CURL or more wordy with a normal
fsockopen/fwrite.

Thanks, I'll look at the CURL functions and see it will do what I want.

- in other words I want to re-direct
to a page but have the POST data filled in for the page to deal with.

The redirection is not really possible: the client doesn't know what
post request to send, and at any rate: posts aren't send anymore on a
redirect

Is there a way to do this without using Session control?
I don't really want to go and change a whole bunch of old scripts to
implement sessions, so I was hoping to be able to use something like
header() to fill in the $_POST array before redirecting.

Nope. If however the receiving script has the same domain, you can just
request the page yourself on the server and output that directly to
the user (possibly including headers). Perfectly possible, but a
nightmare for relative links. You could consider trying to force a
<basetag in the head, but I'd call it far from reliable. And your
page is offcourse not bookmarkable at all.

That's an interesting idea - I'd not thought of doing that.
Thanks Rik for your suggestions.

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Gav