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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 7:16 PM
> To: Ben Bleything; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2001 8:48 PM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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
>>
>>
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