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[_] PHP header() GET not POST

Dave Hodgkinson davehodg at gmail.com
Sun Sep 3 13:14:17 BST 2006


On 3 Sep 2006, at 13:09, Mike Walters wrote:


>>
>> you can't redirect POST and retain the parameters AFAICR.
>>
>> Why do you need to do that?
>>
>
> Ug. My site needs to redirect to a third-party site and I want to
> minimise the chance of someone editing the parameters. Once the
> page has redirected the URL of the third-party is visible with all
> parameters.

For payment?

Can you go a POST inside PHP and check the results?


>
> When the third-party redirects back to my site I can do a double
> check at that stage and take action, but by that time the third-
> party has completed its transaction so I'd have to 'undo' it.
>
> Is this a PHP thing or an HTTP thing, i.e. if PHP would another
> language do what I need?

HTTP.
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