Mike,
>From what I've seen it's more of a browse from the server rather then a
post like your thinking. The process works much the same way as a form
post would only the end user never sees any of the action, instead they
get a please wait page. 
Any way, that's whats going on in the background, as far as how to do
it, I'm not really sure but I hope this points you in the right
direction.
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Moore [mailto:mmoorree4444@y...] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 3:21 PM
To: ASP Web HowTo
Subject: [asp_web_howto] HTTP POST? Huh??

Can somebody please tell me what is needed, I
understand the basics of ASP and have never come
across this before.

I am trying to plug into a 3rd party credit card
processing gateway. They are tell me to have my ASP
script connect to the gateway, do a HTTPS POST and use
a specific port. Some of the information being passed
will be a login and password. This is where I'm
getting confused, they surely don't mean to post a
form, because even if I use hidden fields I can view
source and see the login and password.

Thanks for your help
Mike Moore

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What they want is for you to post to that address...you create an http
request and the html sent has a form like:

<form action="https://domain/filename.cgi" method=post>

Posting encrypts field values, using SSL secures the connection so although
you may see the values in view-source, no one else can.

hth,

tom mallard
seattle

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Heath [mailto:scott@s...]
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 12:01 AM
To: ASP Web HowTo
Subject: [asp_web_howto] RE: HTTP POST? Huh??


Mike,
>From what I've seen it's more of a browse from the server rather then a
post like your thinking. The process works much the same way as a form
post would only the end user never sees any of the action, instead they
get a please wait page.
Any way, that's whats going on in the background, as far as how to do
it, I'm not really sure but I hope this points you in the right
direction.
Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Moore [mailto:mmoorree4444@y...]
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 3:21 PM
To: ASP Web HowTo
Subject: [asp_web_howto] HTTP POST? Huh??

Can somebody please tell me what is needed, I
understand the basics of ASP and have never come
across this before.

I am trying to plug into a 3rd party credit card
processing gateway. They are tell me to have my ASP
script connect to the gateway, do a HTTPS POST and use
a specific port. Some of the information being passed
will be a login and password. This is where I'm
getting confused, they surely don't mean to post a
form, because even if I use hidden fields I can view
source and see the login and password.

Thanks for your help
Mike Moore

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