Is it possible to send POST data with a PHP redirect?

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Update: This is NOT a duplicate of How do I send a POST request with PHP?. The solutions there don\'t work for me, they just output the result of the request, I don\'t w

Answer 1

Short answer :

• POST to external server
• parse response
• do not echo out anything
• use header('Location: url?param=res') ;
• exit ; //this is kind of important

I do not want to receive the result of the POST request in my PHP script, instead I just want to send the user to the external site where they see the result of the POST

If you are sending a POST request from a PHP script, then the response will ALWAYS come back to the same PHP script. I think what you want is NOT to send this the response back to the user, but instead redirect the user to a another URL. For which you make sure you are doing.

header('Location: url?param=res') ;
exit ;

and not sending anything to the client before the header() call