php - Redirecting an HTTP POST

Question

Ok, so in my web app's API I have an incoming HTTP post request. I would like to pass that POST request on to a different server, without losing the data in the POST header. Is this possible? which type of redirect would I use? php examples?

Edit: The HTTP request is coming from a mobile app, not a web browser.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could use cURL or sockets to re-post the data, but you can't really redirect it.

POST'ing to a URL with cURL:

$ch = curl_init('http://www.somewhere.com/that/receives/postdata.php');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($_POST));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response = curl_exec($ch);