Re: PHP Header to stimulate a POST method or POST string????

Whoa!! I never thought about that. Now, I'm beginning to understand this... Fortunately, I have Mozilla, so I found out about the "Live HTTP header" extension, not releted to the keywords while Google searching just recently so I installed it and saw that it is different than I thought. I saw no "Location:" feature, now your comments surely would be of a help. Thanks a million! Now I'll have to decide which one to use.. Scott F. "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett@php.net> wrote in message news:20040218160155.32726.qmail@web14302.mail.yahoo.com... > --- Scott Fletcher <scott@abcoa.com> wrote: > > I am wonder if it is possible to use the header("Location: > > https://www.blah.net") while stimulating it as a POST > > method/string. > > It is not, and if you think about that for a minute, you should be glad. > > You cannot force the user to submit a POST request to any URL, but you can > submit a POST request yourself and then show the content of the response > to the user. > > There are PEAR classes that can help you with this (most of the HTTP_* > ones), the cURL extension can do it, and you can also do it yourself > manually with fopen(): > > http://shiflett.org/hacks/php/http_post > > Hope that helps. > > Chris > > ===== > Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ > > PHP Security - O'Reilly > Coming mid-2004 > HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams > http://httphandbook.org/ > PHP Community Site > http://phpcommunity.org/