postget: Bookmark POST forms, hide passwords

You cannot bookmark pre-filled forms to your browser bookmarks. Although browsers support storing of form data you still have to load the form page and click its submit button. This script will allow you to:

• Store all POSTed form data as GET data (after '?' URL delimiter).
• Replace all sensitive passwords by indirect references to your priv directory to allow you to make your bookmark file itself public.

• Store the downloaded file as /home/lace/WWW/cgi-bin/postget.php.

• Edit path to your priv directory in the stored postget.php.

• Bookmark the following Freshmeat URL: http://localhost/~lace/cgi-bin/postget.php?_postget=http%3A%2F%2Ffreshmeat.net%2Flogin%2F&url=%2F&username=YOUR_USERNAME&password=_priv_postget.freshmeat.net.pwd&persistent=1

  (Replace YOUR_USERNAME with your Freshmeat account name.

• Store your Freshmeat account password to: ~/priv/postget.freshmeat.net.pwd

  Protect it by 'chgrp nobody postget.freshmeat.net.pwd' and 'chmod 640 postget.freshmeat.net.pwd' (it is not secure as long as someone else can supply pages served by the same Apache webserver.

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