I wrote:
> >"Can I take a CGI-Post of form data to my server, record the
> >posted data, and then send back a header such that the browser
> >re-posts the data to another server?"
Michael A. Stone writes:
> yes.. depending on how much data you have.
> the trick is to convert the form data sent by the POST query to
> server A into a URL extension for a GET query on server B. in
> general, that's simple:
I don't know why, but it seems lately most of my posts get
misunderstood :-(. Yes, doing a Location: redirect with a GET query
string is fairly easy, but what I need is a redirect such that the
browser POSTs to the second server.
> the caveat is that there's an upper limit to the length of data
> which can be tacked onto a URL. i don't recall the number off
> the top of my head, but i think it's somewhere around 1K.
Usually around 240 characters. Actually this is more of a
limitation in the underlying protocol - way back when I used to run
into a similar issue when using raw telnet and typing fairly long
lines.
> if you're just asking the user to log in on one machine, and
> want to pass the approved identity to the next, that should be
> no problem. if you want to pass a whole truckload of data from
> the first machine to the second, you'll need to look at ways to
> compress the data.
The big problem is security. A GET can be bookmarked, which
saves the username and password in the bookmark file, while a POST
cannot. Not to mention the limitations on access to the secondary
servers in this specific case.
So does anybody know how to do it so that it submits the second
request as a POST instead of a GET?
Steven J. Owens
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