Re: temp url with time limit

2010-04-23 Thread Bill Freeman
Another possibility, if you don't care what the url looks like, is to encode the date and a md5 (or other, your choice) checksum in the url. The checksum is formed by putting a 'secret' where the checksum goes (at the end?) and checksuming that. When you get a request back, first check the date,

Re: temp url with time limit

2010-04-23 Thread Nick Serra
Just create a model that stores the url and the expiration time. If the url is hit past the expiration time, delete it, if it's still within the time limit, display whatever you want to display. Obviously this is for a small system, since you would be waiting to delete until the url is hit, but

Re: temp url with time limit

2010-04-23 Thread daniels
Take a look at this Lighttpd module: http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs:ModSecDownload You could implement something based on what the module above is doing. On Apr 23, 12:26 pm, Faizan wrote: > Wondering if there is a good way to generate temporary

temp url with time limit

2010-04-23 Thread Faizan
Wondering if there is a good way to generate temporary URLs that expire in X days. Would like to email out a URL that the recipient can click to access a part of the site that then is inaccessible via that URL after some time period. Thanks, Faizian -- You received this message because you are