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Hi,
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I have a need to redirect from a form with method = "POST", and I think the Redirect Action only uses "GET".
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I solved this a couple of years ago by inserting the following html form in an html action:
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<?php
echo '<form action="https://gotohere.com" method="POST">';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="Email" value=' + $form->data['email'] + '>';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="Id" value=' + $form->data['id'] + '>';
echo '<input type="hidden" name="auth" value=' + $form->data['auth'] + '>';
echo '<input type="submit">';
echo '</form>';
?>
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which did the job at the time, but now when I try it in CF6 this gives me an Error 403.
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I can't see what I am doing wrong, the form above used to work fine and still does if it is outside the CF6 environment. Unfortunately I need to do this from inside a CF6 form.
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Can anyone suggest what is wrong, and a solution?
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Thanks
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Tim

of course, after changing $form->data to $this->data🙂

OK, more info.. I tried the same thing with a cURL:
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$data = http_build_query( array('id' => $this->data['id'],
'email' => $this->data['email'],
'auth' =>$this->data['auth'] ));


$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://gohere.com');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data);
$r = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
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and still got a 403 error when saving the form. So then I added the lines one at a time, saving on each line, and it was the line
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$r = curl_exec($ch);
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which gave a 403 on form full save. If I do "Quick Save", the save just hangs indefinitely. I don't understand why CF6 would give that error on saving a form, but it obviously is doing something with the curl_exec, and also with the previous iteration of this as well.

I don't understand what you're trying to do, but it SEEMS like all you want is to have your form submit somewhere else? So just set your form to "custom", use a Form Area, and manually set the form action URL.

For various reasons (not of my making), I need the CF6 form to redirect but with a "method=POST" and a few parameters - not the default GET that happens with the Redirect action. It is the method=POST that is causing the problem.
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Back several versions (of CF, PHP and Joomla) , I could do this by embedding the html form from my first post above, into an html action. Today, that same solution generates a 403 error when saving the form.
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So my redirect url from the form area needs to look something like 'https://gotohere.com/POST?p1=data1&p2=data2'
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Thanks as always for your help.

You just copy pasted your original question but here you go
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https://stackoverflow.com/a/5576700/5907930
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You can't just redirect to a post method that's not how it works.