Re: Vars in URL

on 06/02/03 10:03 AM, Shawn McKenzie (nospam@mckenzies.net) wrote: > I am trying to do something simple to sell items with paypal. One of the > options paypal has is a return url, so that after the buyer pays via the > paypal website they are forwarded to the return url (my site) so they can > access some info.. > > The problem is that the form on my site that collects info and posts to > paypal has the hidden return url vars in it. So a simple view source in the > browser reveals the return url. > > So what I did is made a form that submits to a php script on my site that > then adds the appropriate paypal vars and submits to the paypal site. I > used header(Location:"), but this shows the return url var in the url > address bar. I want to pass vars to paypal without them being shown in the > url address bar. Not a chance really -- you can't use cookies (essentially the third way to do pass vars around), because cookies are tied to a specific domain. I say if the rest of society can deal with POST and GET vars for Paypal etc, then so can you :) Justin