Re: emulate full post wth redirect

Take a look at curl. http://www.php.net/curl Jason On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 18:10, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > Wow, has it really been a year. No replies??? Any ideas??? Anyone??? > > Thanks! > Shawn > > "Bobby Patel" <anup_patel@rogers.com> wrote in message > news:20030106060406.10909.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php