use an anchor to load a page sending post data
<p>I'm not even sure if this is possible, but I need to send POST data to a page via a user-clicked link. Can this be done?</p>

<p>To be clear, I do not want the data returned to the current page; the target page should load in the browser just as though the user had submitted a form, but I need to send the post data without a form, if possible</p>
