Re: Viewing the output of a form post and preserving authentication

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Date: 08/04/04 

Date: 4 Aug 2004 10:42:04 -0700

jeremy.phillips@pfizer.com (Jeremy Phillips) wrote in message news:<63a83d98.0408021106.96f0f34@posting.google.com>...
> I am trying to build a web form that uses the "POST" method (too much
> data for GET) to send data to a second form, then displays the
> response of that form post. The second web form requires standard
> authentication. I have a solution implemented in which the following
> occurs:
>
> 1) My website posts form data to a backend cgi script.
> 2) The script authenticates and sends data to the second form.
> 3) The script downloads and prints the contents of the response from
> the second form to the user's browser window(print
> $response->content).
>
> This seems to work fine; however, the content of the response from the
> second form contains several links. Clicking on one of these links
> requires the user to authenticate, since the server, and not the
> client, has been authenticated. I need to do this in a way such that
> this second authentication is not neccessary.

You would need to edit all the links so that thay are proxied through
your server too.

> What I would really like to do is post the form data and then redirect
> to the actual response page on the remote server.

You can only do this if the remote server is responding with a
bookmarkable page (i.e. it's either a "FOUND" response or it's got a
Content-location header that can be used to re-fetch the same page
with a GET).

This, of course, has nothing to do with Perl.

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