Charles Daminato wrote: > We tried links before, but unfortunately certain clients *cough* AOL > *cough* would break the link at a line break and we had to split the > variables away from the link ...
I think a year or so ago I wrote about making the link shorter by packing the information more smartly into less characters. You were trying to make URLs like this work: https://rr-n1-tor.opensrs.net/transfers/index.cgi?rid=318&bt=1&ordnum=42693&; password=wsdN4tjNfK No wonder it wrapped! Consider writing your URL this way: https://xfer.opensrs.net/42693/wsdN4tjNfK This is only 41 characters long. No need to encode the info using GET form notation, when you can simply encode the data in PATH info. And no need to include the reseller id, because you can look that up from the order number. This is already shorter than the 57 character URL "https://rr-n1-tor.opensrs.net/transfers/index.cgi?rid=318"; that you are publishing now!!!! I can't imagine any mail client wrapping it. You could also squeeze an extra few characters out by removing the second slash and encoding the number in URL-modified base64. Each digit in a base 10 number only takes 0.55 digits in base 64! So, we could squeeze out three characters and have: https://xfer.opensrs.net/Q8JwsdN4tjNfK Then, if you care to use a shorter domain name, you can get: https://osrs.net/Q8JwsdN4tjNfK Only 30 characters long! Don't tell me this is not technically possible. Have your technical people put on their outside-the-box thinking caps. :-) David
