Redirect while maintaining state with POST

Hi,

I'm programming something in which a user must log in at one stae. In the
beginning of my script that places data in the database the user is
authenticated. When the user hasn't logged in yet he/she is redirected to a
log in page. Now the data must be maintained as after the log in it must be
inserted in the database. I can not use sessions nor the GET method (because
the data can be larger dan GET can contain).

Does anyone have any idea how to redirect to another page with maintaining
state using POST?

I'm trying to start a discussion about this, please ask me if you don't
understand the question.

Gez

Gez wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm programming something in which a user must log in at one stae. In the
> beginning of my script that places data in the database the user is
> authenticated. When the user hasn't logged in yet he/she is redirected to
> a log in page. Now the data must be maintained as after the log in it must
> be inserted in the database. I can not use sessions nor the GET method
> (because the data can be larger dan GET can contain).
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to redirect to another page with maintaining
> state using POST?
>
> I'm trying to start a discussion about this, please ask me if you don't
> understand the question.
>

1 - Put the data in a server-side session (session cookie, file, database, etc).
2 - It breaks usability to allow people to post when they're not logged in.
Have a link to log them in first, and THEN take them to the form, so that
when they post they're allowed to