Re: emulate Post with redirect

On Monday 06 January 2003 14:01, Bobby Patel wrote: > Hello, I want to emulate a POST request to Paypal. Originally a POST > request is sent from the user (through a form) and the user is redirected > to paypal's site. Now, what I want to do is to emulate a POST request (so > that the surfer can't see some of the hidden fields of the form) and to > deter tampering. (If they could see all the fields, they could just create > their own form , and just change the amount). > > Possible solution: > fsockopen to emulate POST, but that doesn;t redirect the user, using > header will direct the user to the paypal site, but then I have to use a > GET request and then once again variables are visible and modifiable. > > > Desired solution: > a PHP script (toPaypal.php, say) that is called when a surfer wants to buy > something for a product for $5 , say. > The Product form will direct to the toPaypal.php script that creates a POST > request and sends the request and the surefer to Paypal. > > Any ideas? or did I just make this confusing? One solution I guess is to > just double check the total amount credited to the merchant account matches > the product. But then I ask this question out of curosity. Have a look at curl and snoopy. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* Remember, drive defensively! And of course, the best defense is a good offense! */