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PHP POST with header() and Bad header problems

Answer 1

+9 A:

header() sends a response header.

It sounds like you want to make a request, on the back end.

So you probably want to use curl to make the request.

If when you're done processing the response, you want to send some kind of header to the user agent (browser), then header() would be appropriate.

timdev 2009-10-19 00:36:14

It's nice when you can learn something new. Much appreciated.

Paulo 2009-10-19 02:39:48

Answer 2

+1 A:

The header functions relate to the headers returned to the client, I suggest you look into using cURL to do your post request: http://www.php.net/cURL

Scuzzy 2009-10-19 00:37:21

Answer 3

A:

If you want to redirect user to another page, you should use

header("Location: http://domain.com/some.other.page?x=y");

If you want the user to send POST variables to the redirect page you will need to use JavaScript.

<html>
<head>
<title>Redirect</title>
</head>
<body onload="document.myform.submit()">
<form name="myform" action="http://domain.com/some.other.page" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="x" value="y">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Tim 2009-10-19 01:15:18

Answer 4

A:

Expanding on timdev's answer, here's the cURL you'd use:

<?php
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"http://www.target.com/script.php");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "postvar1=value1&postvar2=value2&postvar3=value3");
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch); 
?>

tog22 2010-01-05 19:20:52

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