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jeyroz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is anyone familiar with a technique for sending information via HTTP "POST" without submitting a form?

Here is a rundown of what is going on:
A form is being used to send payment information directly to a gateway processor (whose backend process we have no hand in). There are several form elements that need to be validated (server-side, no javascript) before the request is processed. I've pointed the form "action" back to my own script to handle validation and plan on redirecting the information to the gateway script upon success. I am hoping to send the info via POST rather than attaching it to a redirect URL (via GET).

Any ideas?

As always, thanks ahead of time for your help!

author => jeyroz