Hi,
The RFC 2068 (HTTP/1.1) specify that:
301 e 302 responses to POSTs shouldn't be redirected unless they can
be
confirm by user.
Also notes that some UA transform the POST to a GET, erroniously.
Merlin, The Mage
On Monday 24 June 2002 11:50 am, Kirk Bowe wrote:
: Hi, yes that's one of the pages that I've been looking at, and the code is
: almost identical (I've tried M_GET / GET as well). Still nothing
: happening for me :-)
:
: Cheers
:
: Kirk.
:
: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Ken Y. Clark wrote:
: > 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
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