Peter,
Regarding security, I embedded a GUID in the link which expires within 1 hour, but I'm not sure if that might be sufficient or not. Any better ideas?
-Nathan
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From: Peter Connell <Peter.Connell@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Getting Into HTML Formatted EMAIL
Nathan,
I presume there are essentially 2 requirement to this. The first being a system that provides for an email to be generated and the second being able to render content as HTML.
My approach to controlling email content is simply to send a notification that is just that, a notification in text format. For further content I just include a link which is a url that points back to the website where any data can be displayed in all it's glory.
Of course if the data is sensitive then there is a authentication hurdle with the "link" approach.
The recipients must either register on the website with a usr/pwd or the link must contain some sort of unique secure token that can be used in a way that prevent users from accessing the associated content via the web unless in possession of the token.
Peter
midrange.com
