PHP header information

Ok. I know in Flash you can send php information by using the GET method with PHP and just posting the variable information to the end of the URL. Example, if I had some php file that retrieved information on a certain person, like their age, and my database had several people in it, I could get that information in Flash by loading vars from http://mysite.com/flashthing.php?name=personsname , and then I would just print out whatever information that came out.

But, let’s say that in Flash, I want to be able to send large amounts of data, or I simply want to keep the information private… or maybe I just don’t want someone to be able to access the .php file and put in their own variables after the ? and see the output without using Flash. Something like that would require me to use the POST method. But… when trying to send information from Flash to php, I havn’t seend a way to use POST, or some way to add the information to the header.

Is there a way to do this? Or are we stuck with using GET and in-URL values until some later release?

Just curious!

–Xezton