https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-to-external-url-only-not-gf Gravity Support Forums Topic: POST to external URL only (not GF) en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:38:47 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-to-external-url-only-not-gf#post-49520 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:14:33 +0000 David Smith 49520@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi James,</p> <p>There is currently no standard way to prevent Gravity Forms from saving the data; however, you can <a href="http://pastie.org/1736243" rel="nofollow">delete the data once it has been saved</a>. If you're feeling frisky, there possibly could be a way to prevent Gravity Forms from handling the data altogether via the pre_submission_hook (last hook to fire before Gravity Forms saves the data); however, it would be ripe for issues. :P </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/post-to-external-url-only-not-gf#post-49030 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:06:37 +0000 jamesglenos 49030@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>After some searching, I came across and successfully implemented some code to POST to an external URL as described here:</p> <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/cant-find-any-instructions-to-post-form-data-to-external-url" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/cant-find-any-instructions-to-post-form-data-to-external-url</a></p> <p>Now, I'd like to find out if I can prevent submission of data to GF. The external POST URL is for secure form submission and I prefer to submit data only once. </p>