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Is there a short URL facility on microsoft IIS (similar to .htaccess on linux)
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Hi
Sorry to ask a newbie question
but is there a utility in Microsoft IIS server (v6 latest) that lets
us use *short*
URLs in our emails to our customers.
i.e. is there any re-direct facility built into ms IIS, that lets us
easily set up
multiple redirects... without bothering our technical staff each time
something
is changed ?
The basic problem is that we all know, all "From:" email addresses can
readily be spoofed and that the user has no way of knowing whether or
not any
email is genuinely from us.
Worse, if we send an HTML email (in msOutlook at least) the user
simply has no
way of knowing whether the hypertext link in the email being displayed
will in fact take them to our website or somewhere else.
Our solution is to focus mainly on sending *plain text* emails.
BUT the problem with plain text emails is that any URL longer
than about 65 characters is likely to get broken when arrives
in the users email software (due to wrapping).
With thanks
Ship
Shipert
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| Brian Cryer 2007-05-08, 10:17 pm |
| "Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
news:46406c03_3@rain.i-cable.com...
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> How about using session variables to pass parameters? :)
Session variables are maintained by the server and don't form part of the
URL. So in response to the poster's request about how to shorten the URLs in
an text email, session variables don't help.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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| Brian Cryer 2007-05-08, 10:17 pm |
| "ship" <shiphen@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote in message
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> Hi
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> Sorry to ask a newbie question
> but is there a utility in Microsoft IIS server (v6 latest) that lets
> us use *short*
> URLs in our emails to our customers.
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> Our solution is to focus mainly on sending *plain text* emails.
> BUT the problem with plain text emails is that any URL longer
> than about 65 characters is likely to get broken when arrives
> in the users email software (due to wrapping).
Assuming you want to keep it all in-house, you could try simply having a
short url to a page which then does a meta http-equiv="refresh" ... to the
longer/full page url. You'd have to manually create the short-url page, and
if you had any variables (say their email address) that you pass as part of
the url then you'd probably need some simple scripting to pass the variable
along to the new page.
Hope this helps.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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| Benjamin Niemann 2007-05-08, 10:17 pm |
| Hello,
ship wrote:
> Sorry to ask a newbie question
> but is there a utility in Microsoft IIS server (v6 latest) that lets
> us use *short*
> URLs in our emails to our customers.
If you have full control over the server and can install IIS plugins, you
may try <http://www.qwerksoft.com/products/iisrewrite/> or
<http://www.isapirewrite.com/>. Both give you similar functionality like
mod_rewrite for Apache.
HTH
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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/
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| Jerry Stuckle 2007-05-08, 10:17 pm |
| ship wrote:
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> Hi
>
> Sorry to ask a newbie question
> but is there a utility in Microsoft IIS server (v6 latest) that lets
> us use *short*
> URLs in our emails to our customers.
>
> i.e. is there any re-direct facility built into ms IIS, that lets us
> easily set up
> multiple redirects... without bothering our technical staff each time
> something
> is changed ?
>
>
> The basic problem is that we all know, all "From:" email addresses can
> readily be spoofed and that the user has no way of knowing whether or
> not any
> email is genuinely from us.
>
> Worse, if we send an HTML email (in msOutlook at least) the user
> simply has no
> way of knowing whether the hypertext link in the email being displayed
> will in fact take them to our website or somewhere else.
>
> Our solution is to focus mainly on sending *plain text* emails.
> BUT the problem with plain text emails is that any URL longer
> than about 65 characters is likely to get broken when arrives
> in the users email software (due to wrapping).
>
> With thanks
>
>
> Ship
> Shipert
>
You could try isapi/rewrite <http://www.isapirewrite.com/>. It does the
same on IIS as Apache's mod_rewrite. And if you only have one site,
it's free.
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Remove the "x" from my email address
Jerry Stuckle
JDS Computer Training Corp.
jstucklex@attglobal.net
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| graig.stock@gmail.com 2007-05-22, 6:26 pm |
| On May 9, 12:06 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
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> You could try isapi/rewrite <http://www.isapirewrite.com/>. It does the
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> --
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> Remove the "x" from my email address
> Jerry Stuckle
> JDS Computer Training Corp.
> jstuck...@attglobal.net
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You could also try IIS Mod-Rewrite ( http://www.micronovae.com/ModRewrite/ModRewrite.html
). It is fully compatible with Apache mod_rewrite and also its Pro
version supports .htaccess (!!!). Very solid solution with many more
features than isapi rewrite.
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