RE: [PHP] HTTP header question.

THANK YOU. Finally. Unfortunately, in brief tests, I can't get it to work, but I will continue to beat on it. That's exactly what I was getting at. I found some info on the internet regarding what the headers that POST sends are... you can see it at http://opop.nols.com/write/HTTP.html. Hope this helps everybody out. Thanks, Ben -----Original Message----- From: Richard Baskett [mailto:rickbaskett@home.com] Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:26 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] HTTP header question. The way that I did it was by using sessions which if you have a login you are probably using anyways. One of my session variables is "message". That way I can pass messages back and forth to pages, reinitialize them after the message has been received, etc etc etc. If you REALLY want to use headers this is what Lawrence Sheed (thanks Lawrence) sent me: header "POST /index.php3 HTTP/1.1"; header "Host: $host"; header "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" ; header "Content-length: ". strlen ($data); header "Connection: close\n\n"; //may only need one, can't remember if header postpends \n //Now print variables //var1=information&var2=more //for each var to submit header "$$var1=$var1&$$var2=$var2"; I eventually went a different route, but he said this emulates a POST. Good luck.. I hope I understand and I hope it helps > > All I want to do is output "Authentication failed" above the form if > they type in invalid credentials. I want to do it by passing a header > that contains the same information as if there were a form submitted > that contained a field name "failed" and value "true". Aside from this > one application, I can think of many other places where this would be > valuable. > > Am I being unclear? It seems that my question was not understood. > Please let me know so I can try to re-explain. > > Thanks, > Ben > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave VanAuken [mailto:dave@hawk-systems.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 7:16 PM > To: Ben Bleything; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP] HTTP header question. > > what is the logic behind requiring the header? > > for example, to avoid using cookies and yet ensuring security, we pass a > loginkey for all pages. > > every page has > include('securitycheck.php'); > which parses the loginkey, uncompresses/decode it to get the userid and > timestamp, and prompts for a login if the last access was too old (say > 10 min). > > the security check displays the login screen if no key is available or > key is > expired, and exits, preventing display of the remainder of the page > > ifthe key is valid, it updates the key for the current time (reset the > expire > counter so to speak) and displays the page iwth all URL's conyaining the > encoded > key. > > you end up with one additional line of code per page (which we include > as part > of site template) > > unless you are looking for something else entirely and I am missing the > point > (entirely possible). > > Dave > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Bleything [mailto:bleythib@ucs.orst.edu] >> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:48 PM >> To: php-general@lists.php.net >> Subject: [PHP] HTTP header question. >> >> >> Hey all, >> >> I want to craft a header such that it seems to the page that data has >> been POST'ed to it... Here's the situation: I'm writing a login page > to >> my application, and if they log in incorrectly, I want the page to >> redisplay, but I want it to throw out an error message. I'm currently >> doing it by >> >> header("Location: login.php?failure=true"); >> >> but I'd like to make it transparent. Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Ben >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >> For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >> To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net >> >> >> > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net