Web Tool for Converting GET vars to POST vars

I've found myself using API's quite a lot (including my own webapps) and I don't know about you guys, but sometimes it's a lot more simple to just shove a URL in a browser to test the output. Otherwise I have to fire up Charles on my Mac to do the form submission. But my webapps, like most, use POST VARS and not GET VARS.

So I built a little PHP web page tool for taking a GET VAR constructed URL, turn into POST vars and then submit the form for you.

This means you can just shove a regular old URL into it and do the post.

Saves me a lot of time - so posted here as public domain code and I hope someone else finds it useful.

You'll need the cURL library to use it.

Usage:-

Construct a URL with the POST vars you want submitted appended to the FORM POST URL in the same way you would GET VARS, pop it in the text box and hit the button.

Example : http://example.com/myForm.php?var1=hello&var2=World


<?php

// getToPost.php - converts a GET encoded URL to a POST
// To remove the pain in the **** that testing POST forms are
// Thrown together by TrillianJedi and published on WebmasterWorld.com, 28/03/2010. Public Domain, E&OE....
// Requires cURL library
//
// Edit the "<WHEREVER_YOU_PUT_THIS>" bit to use and upload to a cURL enabled PHP webserver

$uri = $_POST['data'];

if ($uri == "") {

echo "
<html>
<head>
<title>Post Me</title>
</head>

<body>

<div style='text-align:center; padding: 50px;'>
<form action='http://<WHEREVER_YOU_PUT_THIS>/getToPost.php' method='post'>
URL : <input type='text' name='data' style='width: 550px'> 
<INPUT type='submit' value='Post It For Me'>
<form>
</div>

</body>

</html>
";

} else {

// Do the post

// Get the POST url

$postArray = explode("?", $uri);

$url = $postArray[0];

$args = $postArray[1];

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $args);

// If this takes longer than 5 seconds, we probably have an issue....
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,5);

$posted = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// Quick and dirty output check - if this is XML like a lot of XML-RPC webservices are, make it render nicely in browser

if (strstr($posted, "<?xml")) {
header ("content-type: text/xml");
}

echo $posted;
}

?>

Web Tool for Converting GET vars to POST vars

Useful for testing

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