in reply to Hiding passed values in url

To hide the parameters you would have to do a POST request.

There are two problems with that:

  1. The CF script would have to support POST.
  2. You can't do a POST redirect with any reliability. There are some browsers for which it works, but for most it doesn't.
If you absolutely need to do this, you should use LWP::UserAgent, make a POST request, and then print it's result. The only drawback is that your CF script will see all the requests coming from the server running your script - that may or may not be a problem, depending on your application.

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Re: Re: Hiding passed values in url
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 22, 2004 at 18:20 UTC
    I am looking into the UserAgent module and here is my attempt but it doenst seem to be working. 
    use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my $query = new CGI;
my $name = $query->param("name") || "";
my $city = $query->param("city") || "";

#do perl mail stuff here
#etc......

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->request(POST 'http://webserverhere/mydirectory/act.cfm', [name =>
+ $name, city => $city]);
#not sure what do to from here?

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      You are throwing away the result of the request. You should do something like:
      $result=$ua->request(POST 'http:....
if ($result->is_success) { # Everything OK
   print $result->content; # send everything to the user
} else { # There was an error in the CF script
   die "or do something equaly drastic";
}

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