Can you post data from PHP

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I need to cause a user's browser to post data using PHP to another site.

Example: You go to start.com/auto-login-hack (via GET)... then PHP sets the right headers etc. and causes the browser to, via POST, go to 3rdparty.com/login.php with login credentials.

I have done this is the past by having an HTML form and an onload script that submits the form to the destination.

I don't know enough about headers and etc. Is this possible? Can anyone link an example? My search skills just turned up how to use $_POST.

Thanks.

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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Yes, you can submit POST requests from PHP.

One of your choices is to use curl as shown in this SO question.

However, you cannot do redirects.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

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answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:34

Peter Bailey

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score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:33

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You cannot redirect to a POST; this is a limitation of HTTP. You'd have to use JavaScript to cause the browser to post a form.

answered Mar 08 '10 at 16:33

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