Hey!
Yep. It looks like he is using a DB. I notice the db_id=3058. It's probably the
key into the DB table that contains the Ad. poster information like his E-mail address.
I think you have figured out the mechanism. Now what do you need to make it work
is the question.
The way I see it is this:
One DB table for the inventory, which has a key in it to another DB table that has the
ad. poster's information, which contains his E-mail address. When a requester selects
and ad., with a servlet poster's key as a parameter sent to the servlet, the servlet
launches a DB class that gets the Ad poster's E-mail. With this E-mail address in hand
the servlet
can then launch an E-mail class that builds the Java Mail To: and sends the E-mail.
The Ad. requester never sees the E-mail address. Kewl.
Using the DB makes it easy to do thousands of items of inventory, whereas my idea
about the servlet parameters is functionally deficient and good only for a reasonable
amount of items.
I am interested. I am going to code it up. Get to me off-line for the details.
Sans adieu,
Danny Rubis
for getting the
"blueads.com" wrote:
> Pretty close Danny,
> I've been looking at other sites that have anonymous sendmails and it looks
> like they are using a key field of the database record and when you click on
> the link it sends the parameter to a servlet (or cgi) which looks up the
> email address that corelates with the key field and brings up a servlet
> (cgi) generated html page for some one to type there email into. The link
> below is an example of what I am trying to do (The part that says "reply to
> ad") when I mean anonymous email.
> http://www.discoveromaha.com/cgi-bin/freecls/freecls.cgi?db=general&website=
> &session_key=&search_and_display_db_button=on&results_format=long&db_id=3058
> &query=retrieval&category=Auto+Parts
>
> Tom K.
>
> Subject: Re: Sending anonymous email
> Hey!
>
> One way this can be done, if I interpret your question correctly, you can
> set up
> servlet
> properties, either by fussing with the servlets.properties file or use you
> servlet
> engine's administration applet and add email addresses aliases like this:
>
> Johnny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Janie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Then you can send Johnny or Janie as parameters and no one will know the
> E-address.
>
> Am I on track with your question?
>
> Sans adieu,
> Danny Rubis
>
> "blueads.com" wrote:
>
> > I noted at some sites instead of using mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> they have a
> > link that is underlined and brings up a form with the recipients email
> kept
> > anonymous so that the email collectors don't Spam them. I already have a
> > servlet that a user can fill in to send an anonymous email. What I would
> > like is to have a way of passing an email address to the servlet by simply
> > clicking on a link that would NOT identify the recipient but pass there
> > email to my email form servlet. Any ideas? (The only option I can think of
> > is a query to the database bringing up the recipients email address and
> > passing it to the servlet).
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Tom K.
> >
> >
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