url redirect with parameters hidden

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks,
I am using the following code snippet for automatica redirection.


print $cgi->redirect(-url=>"http://localhost/cgi-bin/main.cgi?username
+=$username&loggedin=1");
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I just want to pass the parameters hidden just like post method. Please tell me how to do that.
Thanks

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Re: url redirect with parameters hidden by moritz (Cardinal) on Jan 16, 2008 at 06:24 UTC
As chromatic pointed out that's not supported in http, and even it were, it wouldn't be secure. What you probably need is cookies and session management.	[reply]
Re: url redirect with parameters hidden by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jan 16, 2008 at 05:49 UTC
As far as I know, HTTP doesn't work that way.	[reply]
Re: url redirect with parameters hidden by olus (Curate) on Jan 16, 2008 at 11:45 UTC
You could encrypt the GET parameters and decrypt them on the target script. Something like `use Crypt::CBC; use MIME::Base64; my $key = '...'; my $crypt = ..... #construct my $params = "username=$username&loggedin=1"; $params = cipher->encrypt($params); $params = encode_base64($params); $params = unpack("H64", $params); print $cgi->redirect(-url=>"http://localhost/cgi-bin/main.cgi?params=$ +params");` [download] Now, on the main.cgi you must parse the params `use Crypt::CBC; use MIME::Base64; my $key = '...'; my $crypt = ..... #construct $params = pack("H64", $params); $params = decode_base64($params); $params = $cipher->decrypt($params); # now split $params in order to get username and loggedin` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]