Wow! This could really be abused. I am surprised that the email clients
don't check mime types of included files for jpg or gif etc. before
including the file in the page. Please don't abuse this. We already have
problems with CFMAIL because people have used CF for spam. I could see
abuse of this as another reason for people to try to filter out CF mail.
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:43 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: HTML Email Tracking
Your call should work. In thefile.cfm you probably want to include a
CFLOCATION to an actual image though, so the browser won't show a broken
graphic.
<!-- thefile.cfm -->
<cfquery .... >
<cflocation url="someimage.gif">
--Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Daniels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 9:29 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: HTML Email Tracking
I feel like I've seen this done before, but I can't for the life of me
figure out how to get it to work.
What I have is a marketing email that is going out HTML formatted. I want to
include in it a reference to an image file. I've heard that some people have
successfully referenced a CFM file in the src of the image that would allow
you to have some code executed each time the image was grabbed. Then you use
cfcontent maybe to push out an actual image.
Anyone got some code that shows how this is actually done? I've tried just:
<img src="thefile.cfm" height=1 width=1 border=0>
The code in thefile.cfm doesn't get run though. All it does by the way is
increment a counter in a db table.
TIA
- Sean
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