Sending POST-data

I'm making a search-engine script for my site that redirects users to
other search engines. Point is that on the website, there's a drop-down
box with some engines and one textfield.

1. User enter the search query.
2. User selects which engine to use.
3. User submits.
4. PHP scripts checks which engine and redirects the user and the query
to the selected engine.

Now the thing is that some of these engines use POST method, which makes
it a bit harder to redirect the query. For those who use GET I just have
to use something like Header("Location: http://somewnine.com/query=$query");

So, does anyone have any good solution to this problem?

//Simon

--- Simon Fredriksson <simon@lan2k.org> wrote:
> Now the thing is that some of these engines use POST method,
> which makes it a bit harder to redirect the query. For those
> who use GET I just have to use something like
> header("Location: http://somewnine.com/query=$query");
>
> So, does anyone have any good solution to this problem?

You have to either let the user POST (rather than redirecting from your site to
the target) or send the POST request yourself and display the result to the
user.

If you choose the latter, search the archives for sample code to send POST
requests from PHP.

Chris

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Simon Fredriksson wrote:

>
> I'm making a search-engine script for my site that redirects users to
> other search engines. Point is that on the website, there's a drop-down
> box with some engines and one textfield.
>
> 1. User enter the search query.
> 2. User selects which engine to use.
> 3. User submits.
> 4. PHP scripts checks which engine and redirects the user and the query
> to the selected engine.
>
> Now the thing is that some of these engines use POST method, which makes
> it a bit harder to redirect the query. For those who use GET I just have
> to use something like Header("Location:
> http://somewnine.com/query=$query");
>
> So, does anyone have any good solution to this problem?
>
> //Simon
>
>