could it be that you only have href="test.cfm" as when they receive the email it would not know how to interpret that. you would need the full server path as well right?
> I have a program that emails a user a link to verify their email. > > So I thought I would take their email and use encrypt to mask it. > Then decrypt it to verify the email against the database. > > So I wrote this and put it in the email so they could click on it: > > <a href="test.cfm?UID=#urlencodedFormat(encrypt(q.email, > "somelongkey"))#&id=#arguments.userID#"> > > I am getting some errors where some users the URL variable "ID" (the > second variable in the hyperlink) is not defined. Like they clicked > on the link in the email and part of the URL variables were chopped > off. > > Anyone recommend a better way of making the URL so I can validate the > users email address? > > I thought URLEncodedFormat would fix any strange characters that would > not pass in a URL variable. > > Maybe it is their email program chopping off the URL variables? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323595 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
