verify by=email find url

andrzejek

verify by=email = logs into your email account and tries to find a link that is coming from the same webpage domain.

we should be able to provide "find url" "find link" and they should have priority over default finding in email

Sven

Hmm in what situation did you see a wrong link being picked up?

andrzejek

Mediawiki, but it was always a problem in some cases...

Sven

ok but what in detail was picked up incorrectly?

andrzejek

Ive seen emails that were not parsed, activation links were still in the inbox... anyway imagine a case where verification email looks like:

Welcome, please activate your account !

This is an activation link for http://forum.gsa-online.de

To request a new actiation link please visit : http://forum.gsa-online.de/resendactivation/token=3243

To activate your account please visit http://forum.gsa-online.de/activation/token=232323


What happens? Why i cannot tell ser what link is correct if the logic is already here?

Sven

well you can if you use "verify by=extractemail" .. then you can specify what to extract and also use "find url/find link". See Drupal - Blog engine.

andrzejek

Yes i know that, but it complicates things, instead of use existing logic (but provide other urls to look for) we have to extractemail.

Sven

you can use "verify url=..." and have some kind of mask there which is used to identify the correct URL and email.

andrzejek

Hmm could you give an example in free time?

Sven

verify url=http://domain.com/verify.php?userid=*&action=verify&*

andrzejek

Yep, good idea, but wont help if links are different