Simple Way to Relay or Pass POST Data From A Page to Another Without .htaccess, Even Cross-Domain

Tue, Aug 25, 2009

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So I had a page which I absolutely could not change or rename. The challenge was, this page would normally receive POST data, and I had to pass or relay this POST data to another page, which resided on another domain. I tried .htaccess, but that didn’t work, so I figured that I had to do some programming. It was simple enough with the curl library to do so, and here it is – The method to pass POST data from page to page:

$todo = "";

while (list($name, $value) = each($HTTP_POST_VARS)) {
$todo.=$name."=".$value."&";
}

$ch = curl_init('http://path.to/your/filename.php');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $todo);
curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
?>

Done!

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