-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian Sullivan wrote: > I am looking for a strategy or samples (or even just a hint as to the > best process) to create an email opt-in strategy in Zope. I am > thinking that what you do is use some sort of hash or unique id > creation mechanism (based on the email address, time or something > else). > > Based on what I am seeing -- some sort of MD5(not totally sure what > that means but I understand there are Python supplied functions to > generate it) hash of a combination of the email address and date/time > stored and then sent to the user should guarantee that it is unique, > can't be auto generated by some bot and should allow verification on > http access using the hash in the url? > > All the potential solutions I am seeing use Python 2.5 + -- the > version of Zope I am using is based on Python 2.4.4. > > Anybody have any ideas or have implemented something like this?
As an example look at the Products.EasyNewsletter code. In a recent project we implemented as similar functionality where we generated 32 char longs strings (based on random numbers) and stored the token in an external DB (MongoDB). Sending out a confirmation email and implementing a view for validating the token through an URL is straight forward. - -aj -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQGUBAEBAgAGBQJM9ToyAAoJEADcfz7u4AZjUfcLwIl28L7mHM82x0NmLEizNHKc qcFHi+rQshpg/DqiIgSiYPIgf+608LbbGX5B+ZR4ekBXQBaHJSuzy/kT/xPxlfO2 EaPYnk/ri93PkmGNHFq5ASz5amNn1kwNrOolM32iP24krbzP91vCujFGvIJ4izJk UkacsI6CD8m7q+9StNPjs/uoHEb5ceHBwiC+u/ipBpAnhHNeum0BxNsWIsiQa/Ns M5+ckS0wMfbyQ+FYEtA7+KnmSiDTnHmg0M0Ii3INXbEZgx9h7u+ezHDFpxU5V2UD kYBf+3eTFu5rRmqbiHMNwnEzBHt1pe8QHPns3+3v15fi7b3i3r4x7PxHHDLbawQq +wtLDlCBzz02vcKjHd0aItSTCxCPu3vOPgCY/hMpsCnz2ElQIgBb6Np0tl6Vt1D6 A3XIkM39X1+wOQUgiqWgylvKvYosx9rrUM+zJ3L6zNZt6YpaDT8+d3cA3hqBNMUA fqRaDaMFL7xclCzB4BOUoEUYwHdjzC0= =uy5J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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