[thelist] Managing URL wrap in email

[Dave Bender]

You could do several things to shorten this:

+ Eliminate any unnecessary URL arguments.  For example, use a separate
script for confirmations only so you don't need to specify "action=confirm".
That would save 14 characters.

+ Consider stripping the email address from the URL.  You might be doing
some comparison of the email address to the confirmation code, but do you
really need to?  I'd argue that you just need the conf. code.  I'd be
curious if anybody sees any loopholes using nothing but a confirmation code.

+ rename the script something shorter.

+ create an alias on your web server, like "/a" redirects to
/maillist/maillist.php.

Dave




-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of John Corry
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:24 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Managing URL wrap in email


I have a mailing list subscription manager script on one of my sites.

It works by sending a confirmation email to a users email address when they
submit that email address for subscription.

The user must follow a link (URL) in the confirmation email in order to
confirm their subscription.

The link (URL) looks like this:
<http://www.jacobliberman.com/maillist/maillist.php?action=confirm&email=me@
mydomain.net&conf=045e2>

Some email clients don't deal with the URL wrapping across lines well, the
URL is broken and the link that the email client generates from the URL
incomplete.

What can I do to ensure this is universally (or nearly universally) usable
by everyone? My target audience is pretty internet illiterate, asking them
to copy/paste the URL into a text editor to remove line breaks then paste
into address bar would be like speaking a foreign language to most of them.

Thanks,
John

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