That sounds like a good idea.   You up for implementing it?

Bryan


On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Ignacio Huerta <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> This is an interesting problem. I suggest that instead of using a HTML
> link by default, we use a custom route, something like:
>
> http://myserver/users/123456-username/activate/64793369eac2b9763a11f9d2d4da92eb71dfbd34
>
> I just created a ticket in Lighthouse about this:
> https://hobo.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8324-hobo/tickets/1022-possible-issue-with-default-activation-link-with-some-browserswebmails
>
> Regards,
> Ignacio
>
> El 02/10/12 19:16, erbecke escribió:
>> Hi everybody.
>>
>> I have a website running on Hobo 1.0 with thousands of registered
>> to deal with this:users. Lately I've found a new problem with the
>> email validation process, since in certain browsers (Internet
>> Explorer apparently) with certains webmails (Hotmail?) the link
>> does not open completely. Because it's a browser problem with some
>> web-mail clients I think it would happend with other newer Hobo
>> realeases too.
>>
>> When the user clicks on the link below:
>>
>> http://myserver/users/123456-username/activate?key=64793369eac2b9763a11f9d2d4da92eb71dfbd34
>>
>>  the browser opens
>>
>> http://myserver/users/123456-username/activate?
>>
>> (without the key string).
>>
>> I think one possible solution is a better embedded link in the
>> validation email with HTML.
>>
>> Right now:
>>
>> <%= user_activate_url :host => @host, :id => @user, :key => @key
>> %>
>>
>> So I use a HTML MIME format creating the following file:
>>
>> activation.text.html.erb
>>
>> And puntting inside the activation link in a proper HTML tag
>>
>> ----
>>
>> <% @user_lang_link = "Click here to activate your account"   %> <%
>> @new_html_url = user_activate_url :host => @host, :id => @user,
>> :key => @key %>
>>
>> <p> <a href="<%= @new_html_url %>"><%= @user_lang_link %></a> </p>
>>
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>>
>> I only found this because the large number of new users in
>> different platforms, including mobile activations.
>>
>> Hope that this solution would be useful for you...
>>
>> Best regards Eddie
>>
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