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[Jon Baer]

No post data is being sent, It should be ...

curl_setopt($imgurl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, 'datastuff='.$datastuff);

- Jon

On Oct 15, 2007, at 6:36 PM, ali mohammad wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Hopefully, this is not off-topic. I have a couple of html image tags
> such as <img src="/path/to/file.php" /> on a single web page, and each
> such tag points to an image creating php file that sends out image
> headers and image data after receiving certain data parameters through
> POST. I am unable to figure out how to send POST data to a URL path  
> that
> is embedded inside an img tag (...and not even sure if that is indeed
> the right way to do it).
>
> I need to use POST since there is a limitation on the length of the  
> GET
> vars. I tried using curl (never used it before and just learnt  
> about it)
> to replace the entire img tag...something like this:
>
> $imgurl = curl_init();
> curl_setopt($imgurl, CURLOPT_URL, '/path/to/file.php');
> curl_setopt($imgurl, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
> curl_setopt($imgurl, CURLOPT_POST,'datastuff='.$datastuff);
> curl_exec($imgurl);
> curl_close($imgurl);
>
> Nothing much happens if I do that. I know I can avoid this approach by
> simply using session variables but I am curious if there is an
> alternative approach to this. Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Best Regards,
> Nefertitian.
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