[Tapestry-developer] Direct Login Suggestions

[Luke Galea]

Hi again,             First I wanted to apologize for asking soooo many questions and thank everyone for giving me so much help.               Now onto my next question. The application we are developing is to have no login page, rather a URL with a generated code would be emailed to the users and they would use this link to login. I have some basic hunches on how to accomplish this, but I was wondering if I could get some feedback. I figure I will have to create my own service to handle this.. but then the trick is that the application that sends the emailed links to the users would not be written using tapestry.. just standard javamail.. so I question how I could generate the gesture to this service.   Part of the reason for this is that the email sent out to each user could be written in such a way that their mail viewer would pull the page directly from tapestry, and the link would be displayed only for those users without HTML support in their MUA. Ie. Something similar to the way that ebay, etc send periodic report emails.   Has anyone tackled something similar? I realize that if I wanted to pull off a ridiculous hack I could just forge the url and have an actionLink on the page that I wish them to enter from that logs them in.. but I am not sure if I could sleep at night if I did that…   Luke Galea Software Development BlueCat Networks 905-762-5225