Wow, has it really been a year. No replies??? Any ideas??? Anyone??? Thanks! Shawn
"Bobby Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hello, I want to emulate a POST request to Paypal. Originally a POST request > is sent from the user (through a form) and the user is redirected to > paypal's site. Now, what I want to do is to emulate a POST request (so that > the surfer can't see some of the hidden fields of the form) and to deter > tampering. (If they could see all the fields, they could just create their > own form , and just change the amount). > > Possible solution: > fsockopen to emulate POST, but that doesn;t redirect the user, using header > will direct the user to the paypal site, but then I have to use a GET > request and then once again variables are visible and modifiable. > > > Desired solution: > a PHP script (toPaypal.php, say) that is called when a surfer wants to buy > something for a product for $5 , say. > The Product form will direct to the toPaypal.php script that creates a POST > request and sends the request and the surefer to Paypal. > > Any ideas? or did I just make this confusing? One solution I guess is to > just double check the total amount credited to the merchant account matches > the product. But then I ask this question out of curosity. > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
