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[cdc]

As usual, I'm trying to post a form to a site, but it does it through AJAX. Everything I've tried so far does not work. 

Here's the pieces of the header that look suspect to me when I POST successfully from my browser:

Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: close
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
X-Prototype-Version: 1.5.0_rc0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

When I try to do it my "traditional" way it just comes back and says that I need a JavaScript enabled browser to submit the form.

Any idea how to get PHP/cURL to handle this?

[perkiset]

As usual, I'm trying to post a form to a site, but it does it through AJAX. Everything I've tried so far does not work. 

First off C, I need to question your intentions here: you don't POST a form via ajax - you can send a ajax request with a post-type message, but not post a form... is this what you mean?

Second - are you using the AjaxRequestor class in the javascript repository or are you just doing this by hand?

Here's the pieces of the header that look suspect to me when I POST successfully from my browser:

Accept: text/javascript, text/html, application/xml, text/xml, */*
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: close
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
X-Prototype-Version: 1.5.0_rc0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Doesn't look bad to me except that there's no content or content size after those headers...

Here's the pieces of the header that look When I try to do it my "traditional" way it just comes back and says that I need a JavaScript enabled browser to submit the form.

Who "says" that? Is it IE/your browser giving that message? Is PHP actually creating that message and sending it back? Need considerably more snippets and such to make heads or tails of this...

/p

[cdc]

Sorry for the confusion.

I'm trying to automate submitting a form on a third party site. The third party site uses (from what I can tell) AJAX to haul my data back to the server when I push the submit button. I think that's what

X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest

is telling me anyway.

When I look at what cURL is returning, it's a message saying, "Sorry, you need JavaScript enabled to submit forms." This is the third party site telling me this. I get the same message if I copy the URL and post fields from the headers and paste them into my address bar.

Hopefully this makes more sense...

[perkiset]

PMing you now...

[thedarkness]

I'd say there are two possibilities here if they are using AJAX for their form "submission". One is to dismantel their XMLHttpRequest and try and post this directly from your program, this will only work if they are not restricting access to their server. Further explanation, lets say that they are posting using GET as follows;

http://their.server.com?name=fred&eaddress=fred@dag.com&dollars=1000

Theirs nothing stopping you technically from hitting that link from anywhere unless they have secured it in some fashion (prolly fairly likely, although.....) Same goes if it's using POST although a level of magnitude more difficult.

If you cannot use the first method then you need to look at some form of browser automation such as using MS's webbrowser object or shdocvw (both automating IE). Easy enough to do if you know how, non-trivial otherwise.

If you want some tips on option two, PM me and I'll give you any help I can.

Cheers,
td

[cdc]

Yeah, it looks like I'd have to go with option 2 because if I just post the variables the server comes back and says that I need a JS enabled browser, so something else is going on with this.

It's not worth going the extra mile for. There are plenty of other sites to spam fish in the sea.