posting data with curl

is there a way using curl or another way to post data to a script, but then to actually be tranferred to that page? (of course i mean without a submit button....an auto post sort of thing.). using curl the script seems to wait for return data and doesn't give control to the url that the data was passed to. i know this is possible using the submit() function with javascript, but that won't work for this situation. any ideas? is there something in curl that i'm missing that will do this? i tried followlocation and it didn't seem to work....? thanks.