ASP Silent Post?

Hello All,

Please forgive me for any inaccuracies in what it's called.

I think it's considered a silent post.

I have an opt in form on my site that ties into a 3rd party contact management system, however when I made the form for visitors to opt-in, I neglected to realize that I need to pass my username and password to this 3rd party site, so using a get or any url encoded method isnt a good idea becasue you'd be able to see the username and password to my account clear as day.

I think this function is very similar to CC verification models. I've just never done one before.

I just need to pass the following info in any type of hidden state to a given URL.


loginName
loginPassword
ea <-- email
ic <-- list name to join

there are additional fields I can add but you did one you did them all, I just dont know how to peform this in ASP without the obvious passing of variables through a URL.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

- Drew

Anything you pass to the browser via http can be visible to the user depending on their determination. You'd need some other secure communication channel or application-level encryption between the asp server and the target server to keep things really hidden.

Nothing should prevent you from submitting to another site by POST:


Nothing is going to prevent a real hacker from intercepting the information, but at least the username and password won't be publically available in the users Http_Referrer server var.

Thanks to the both of you, I was hoping that wasnt the case but I guess I can say im not suprised.

Thanks for your help though, It is greatly appreciated.

Just realized something, I am using SSL on the site and not using a get, id prefer a post, so im assuming that the info is encrypted as it transmits, the problem im having is that the result page needs to be a different page than the form action.

If I just submit using the the form action, the result page simply displays "0" as successful, but I'd like to just either capture that result code and process it on a thank you page instead of this generic white page with a "0" on it. or capture nothing and at least redirect to a more friendly thank you success page

Remember, I cannot edit the action page so a redirect or another solution is a must.

Incase any of you are wondering, this is for Constant Contact: Site Visitor API.

I'd really appreciate any help on this!

Thanks!

Hi
im trying to do the same thing with constant contact.
did you ever find a solution?

thanks
sam

Nope, I know it's possible but I just dont think the question was asked correctly. it's really no different than the way ppl send CC data to online CC processors. When I learned about it, it was called a silent post.

If I find a solution for this, I'll be sure to post it back on here.