[thelist] submitting behind the scenes

Tim Beadle tim.beadle at iop.org
Fri Jun 11 08:22:00 CDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 13:47, Dan McCullough wrote:
> I need to submit a form to another website behind the scenes, its an
> email address going to our outbound email vendor, and have been asked to
> just refresh the page, and not actually have it go to the ugly redirect
> page after the submission.
> 
> Any thoughts? 

If you're using some server-side tech like PHP or ColdFusion, you could
request the vendor's page with the script (rather than the browser).

E.g. <cfhttp> in ColdFusion.

You would then be able to display whatever you like to the user, as it's
all under your control.

Tim
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