D Steward wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 07:41 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > >> you can pass 1K of info on a URL as arguments to a http 'page' which >> invokes your program in whatever web-language its written in. >> > > Well, the data is rather sensitive - authentication tokens, IPs and > possibly cookies and/or password hashes, so doing a POST is more prudent > than putting it in the URL. > I forgot about the possibility of invoking an app or script via use of > PHP so thanks for giving me a hint. > you realize POST data is virtually the same as GET data in an http request? if you use https, then its all encrypted. re: invoking an app by php... if you're talking about php on the 'server' side, just use cgi-bin the old fashion way and your code is invoked directly.