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a small sacrifice of 5 minutes for a longterm time saving.

I'd combine it with the login then, like Adrian mentioned.

On 7/19/06, Damien Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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Sounds like a neat idea... The only thing they probably won't be up for
is being called up with a url variable and possibly having to go through
that again if it's lost.

Rich Wild wrote:

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>
> or write a wee function to set a never-expiring cookie when a certain
> secret
> url variable is present in the string.
>
> Phone them up, tell them the variable and url for this cookie setting
> page.
>
> They visit it, they get a cookie dropped on their machine.
>
> Now kill the cookie setting function so no one else can ever trigger
> it and
> get that cookie.
>
> Only allow the order confirmation screen to be displayed if the cookie
> exists.
>
> If they lose the cookie, allow the page again and get them to revisit to
> reset the cookie.
>
> On 7/19/06, Damien Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a shop system that sends out orders to a shipping company. The
>> shipping company need to access a webpage that contains a confirmation
>> note that contains all the purchaser's shipping and order details. This
>> webpage will be accessed via a link from an email.
>>
>> They feel it will be too annoying (process-wise) to have a
>> username/password for this page and so the obvious problem is how do
you
>> stop jo public (or jo hacker) from accessing someone else's personal
>> info?
>>
>> I was thinking about using a hash of certain parts of the order (eg.
>> purchaser's email address/order number/time of order) in the query
>> string to authenticate the user. Any comments on how secure this is?
>> Could a bot attack this and come across a valid query string to access
>> this data?
>>
>> Thanks, Damien
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