On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Kirk Bowe wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:22:42 +0100 (BST)
> From: Kirk Bowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Preserving POST data on external redirect?
>
>
>
> Hi all, my content handler does some work with POSTed data, and at the
> end
> wants to redirect to a totally unrelated server, preserving the POST data
> that the client originally sent, so that the unrelated server can do its
> own further processing with its own mod_perl, cgi, or whatever.
>
> I can't get it to work, as I think I'm getting confused by some
> pre-Apache::Request hints that I've seen for this. This is the mess I've
> got so far (condensed):
>
> sub handler
> {
> my $r = Apache::Request->new(shift);
>
> ... some calls to other subs here to do work ...
>
> $r->method("POST");
> $r->method_number(M_POST);
> $r->headers_in->unset("Content-length");
> $r->args($content);
> $r->header_out('Location' => "http://j.random.server.com/foo.cgi";);
> $r->status(REDIRECT);
> $r->send_http_header;
>
> return REDIRECT;
> }
>
> It redirects, but doesn't pass the POST data. I thought it may have been
> due to the original post data being deleted because I use it, so I tried
> using Request->instance instead of Request->new, but that made no
> difference either. Is it actually possible to do it if I'm using the
> Request object?
>
> Cheers
I think this is what you want:
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/guide-filter?page=snippets/Redirect_a_POST_Request_Forward.html;query=GET%20POST;match=and;where=all;stem=no
ky
