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Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP [message #178427 is a reply to message #178426]

Sun, 17 June 2012 00:41

Jerry Stuckle
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On 6/16/2012 8:10 PM, Robert Rosenberg wrote:
> On 06/16/2012 14:46, in article 6s0va9-ugd(dot)ln1(at)luuk(dot)invalid(dot)lan, "Luuk"
> <luuk(at)invalid(dot)lan> wrote:
>
>> On 16-06-2012 20:25, Robert Rosenberg wrote:
>>> I would like to go to an external site and send a form to it via Post
>>> (simulating having generated the form and having the user submit it). I know
>>> that if I had been using GET, I could just code the parms along with the URL
>>> in the location command. To simulate Post I assume that I just need to use
>>> header to send the POST parms but I do not know the format of what to place
>>> in the header request (and I assume that I then use location to fire off to
>>> connection).
>>>
>>> Can someone either supply me with a sample code to do this or give me the
>>> URL of the documentation of the Headers that get sent by Post so I can look
>>> them up and create the needed script myself.
>>>
>>> Thank You.
>>>
>>
>>
>> use curl (example #2)
>> see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php
>>
>> or file_get_contents
>> see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php#108309
>>
>
> Thank You.
>
> Example 2 was EXACTLY what I needed (even though all I wanted to do was pass
> a set of parms not load a file).
>
> One other query. I seem to remember a site whose function was to display all
> the headers being passed. I think it was a security type page whose purposed
> was to show all the data being leaked/sent in the headers when you connect.
> I would like to see what I ended up sending (as well as all the headers
> being sent) so I have a reference to see what the cURL function caused the
> browser to send. Cam you refresh my memory by supplying a URL for that site.
>
> Thank You.
>

You may be thinking of the HTTP Headers plugin for Firefox. A great
tool, but it doesn't help with cURL because cURL doesn't use the browser.

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		Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Robert Rosenberg on Sat, 16 June 2012 18:25
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 16 June 2012 18:45
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Luuk on Sat, 16 June 2012 18:46
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Robert Rosenberg on Sun, 17 June 2012 00:10
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 17 June 2012 00:41
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Luuk on Sun, 17 June 2012 18:14
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 17 June 2012 12:19
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Denis McMahon on Tue, 03 July 2012 12:11
		Re: Simulating a Form Method=Post submission in PHP By: Arno Welzel on Mon, 18 June 2012 07:54

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