Re: (fundamental) problem with password reset in 1.x: URL's become too long

2011-11-17 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Bram de Jong wrote: > The angle bracket thing is new to me: how exactly does this help? You > do mean regular < and > right? > > So > > > > Should be better than > > http://www.google.com > > ? > Yep, exactly. Well

Re: (fundamental) problem with password reset in 1.x: URL's become too long

2011-11-17 Thread Bram de Jong
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Andre Terra wrote: > Since url shorteners have already been suggested, how about the possibility > of writing a shorter url pattern in urls.py. Would something like > http://www.freesound.org/r/1-123-a12345678ed12345d123/ be good enough for >

Re: (fundamental) problem with password reset in 1.x: URL's become too long

2011-11-16 Thread Andre Terra
Since url shorteners have already been suggested, how about the possibility of writing a shorter url pattern in urls.py. Would something like http://www.freesound.org/r/1-123-a12345678ed12345d123/ be good enough for you? Cheers, AT On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Tom Evans

Re: (fundamental) problem with password reset in 1.x: URL's become too long

2011-11-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Bram de Jong wrote: > Hmm, > > We have 2 milion users and this isn;t really a good solution for us... > > Does anyone else have an alternative password-reset app which doesn't > use as many characters as the default one? > >  - bram >

Re: (fundamental) problem with password reset in 1.x: URL's become too long

2011-11-15 Thread Eric Chamberlain
We haven't used it for the password reset, but we've modified this short url code to reduce the length of our urls. -- Eric Chamberlain, Founder RingFree Mobility Inc. On Nov 15, 2011, at 7:11 AM, Bram de Jong wrote: >

Re: (fundamental) problem with password reset in 1.x: URL's become too long

2011-11-15 Thread Bram de Jong
Hmm, We have 2 milion users and this isn;t really a good solution for us... Does anyone else have an alternative password-reset app which doesn't use as many characters as the default one? - bram On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 4:57 PM, creecode wrote: > Hello Bram, > > It's been

Re: (fundamental) problem with password reset in 1.x: URL's become too long

2011-11-14 Thread creecode
Hello Bram, It's been awhile since I've had this problem. I don't think it is possible to totally solve the issue but it can be reduced. The problem is not Django but rather how email is handled from point to point. What I do is always put urls on a line by themselves and I put two empty

(fundamental) problem with password reset in 1.x: URL's become too long

2011-11-14 Thread Bram de Jong
Hello all, on freesound.org we are using the built-in password reset view to send users password reset emails... and there is a bit of a fundamental problem with the password reset emails, or more in detail the password reset URLS: they are way too long. In our app we get URLs like this: