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Himmators
Himmators

Reputation: 15006

How to make the client perform a http post with php?

I'm building some efficiency tools for a crappy website. This website uses http-posts for some of it's navigation. What I need is that when a user runs a script on an url (redirect.php), I want the client to post to an url on an external site, with some variables.

I know I could do this with javascript, creating a form and posting to it, but I would prefer doing it with php if possible. It needs to be the client that get's forwarded, because they are authenticated with the website that I'm sending them to.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 41

Answers (1)

deceze
deceze

Reputation: 522024

The only way to make a browser send a POST request anywhere is by making a form and submitting it, or doing equivalent trickery using Javascript. You cannot make a browser issue a POST request in response to a redirect response. There are specifications for response codes which allow "POST redirects", but no current browser implements them.

Upvotes: 2

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