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Re: authenticate user through URL

You can have an HTML url, but I for one have my email client set up to ignore html parts and only shaw the text part.

Personally I hate HTML emails unless I really trust the sender and want to view the content (which is rare indeed).

Of course if you send the url as text, you'll have the problem where email clients will truncate the url (if it does not fit the line char limit) making the user go to an invalid url.

Our workaround was to use apache's rewrite rules to rewrite a short version of the url to it's proper version. For example, the following url:

http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/myApp.woa/wa/DirectAction/ authenticate?<users email address>&<a random number that represents a temporary password>

becomes

http://www.mydomain.com/myApp/authenticate?<users email address>&<a random number that represents a temporary password>

I am not an expert on rewrite rules in Apache, so I cannot help you there (someone else does that here) and of course if you are not using Apache then this may/may not be an option anyway.

On Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003, at 13:34 Australia/Sydney, Michael Warner wrote:

Step 1: a user sends me his/her email address.
Step 2: I send an email back to that address that contains a long
URL like:

.../wa/DirectAction/authenticate?<users email address>&<a random number that represents a temporary password>

Step 3: When users click on the URL, they will be taken to a page that allows them to register
for the site if the email and temp password match one of the records in the TempPerson table.

QUESTION:

Is it possible to set things up so that in the email, the user sees something like: 'click here' such that
that 'click here' hyperlink points to the long URL above (without the user seeing the long URL)?

I am not so much concerned with security issues, but rather with creating convenient and reliable
hyperlink.


Thank you,

Mike W. 

Marek Wawrzyczny

software engineer
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