Re: Encrypting userid for email
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = yea, this is what I decided to do, but I still asked 'cause I was curious to read some feedback.thanksCharles>I have to ask why you feel the need to encrypt the cart number. This is>a unique value that is generated internally to WebCatalog. It is very>unlikely that a user could alter the number to hit someone else's cart>number. In general, it is a bad idea to encrypt something unless you>have a good reason to do so.>>John Peacock>>Charles Kline wrote:>>>> I was thinking about sending some emails out to a bunch of users and>> including a link into the site. This link would include the userid>> which I generated using [cart].>>>> I want to encrypt this id and then decrypt it on a page that does a>> redirect into the area of the site I want.>>>> I have tried this a few ways and I figure that I need to use [url] on>> the encrypted userid, only this makes for a really really long url in>> the email.>>>> Is there any other options?>>>> Thanks>> Charles>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------->> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list
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yea, this is what I decided to do, but I still asked 'cause I was curious to read some feedback.thanksCharles>I have to ask why you feel the need to encrypt the cart number. This is>a unique value that is generated internally to WebCatalog. It is very>unlikely that a user could alter the number to hit someone else's cart>number. In general, it is a bad idea to encrypt something unless you>have a good reason to do so.>>John Peacock>>Charles Kline wrote:>>>> I was thinking about sending some emails out to a bunch of users and>> including a link into the site. This link would include the userid>> which I generated using [cart].>>>> I want to encrypt this id and then decrypt it on a page that does a>> redirect into the area of the site I want.>>>> I have tried this a few ways and I figure that I need to use [url] on>> the encrypted userid, only this makes for a really really long url in>> the email.>>>> Is there any other options?>>>> Thanks>> Charles>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------->> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to>> the mailing list .>> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>>> Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/>>------------------------------------------------------------->This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >>Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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