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Relaying a Webform

postby jtrombley80 » Thu Nov 01, 2012 10:37 pm THANK YOU

Ran into a situation recently where I needed a Webform sitting out on the internet to hit a server in a DMZ and then be relayed from that server to a coreBOS server behind a firewall. The DMZ server was the only one allowed to talk to the coreBOS instance and it wasn't the server hosting the webform. Here's what I did in case anyone has a similar need.

Set the form post on the internet webform to go to "themiddlemanserver/relay.php"

Enabled cURL in PHP on the DMZ server. Contents of relay.php is:

<?php
    $postParams = file_get_contents("php://input");
    $ch = curl_init('http://vtigerbehindfirewall/modules/Webforms/capture.php');
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
    curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postParams);
    curl_exec ($ch);
    curl_close ($ch);
?>

Webform hits the DMZ relay and is sent on to the coreBOS instance behind the firewall. Passes all values correctly.

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