Ok, here's the problem. I have a friend who created a desktop application where when the user clicks on a button it opens up a window with some data from a county website. Until now he hasn't had any problems as he can make the request with a GET url i.e. www.somename.com/index.php?var1=something. This worked up until he hit a website that uses php and no matter how I try to call the url using the GET variables, the page won't accept it. I believe it is looking for $_POST in the php code as the form it uses is action=post. The only solution I was able to come up with was to have his button submit a get url to a php page which would then take the request and post it to the county website. This works fine, but he is worried that since all the requests will then come from his server and not the user's desktop that he will get IP banned for having so many requests. My questions are: how do I get around the $_POST? Or how can I make the IP appear to be dynamic? Or how can I pass the users IP through so the request is from them while still doing the hidden form post? Thank you very much for your help!
Send POST data... which language is the app programmed in? There may be native support for this. Alternatively, use cURL - often used for web apps and there are cURL libraries for programming languages too.
the app is made in filemaker pro 8.5. The page I made him is in php and it sends the data as post using javascript to submit the hidden form. I'd prefer some way around it though.