Solving activation key problem with some browsers.

[erbecke]

Hi everybody.

I have a website running on Hobo 1.0 with thousands of registered users. Lately I've found a new problem with the email validation process, since in certain browsers (Internet Explorer apparently) with certains webmails (Hotmail?) the link does not open completely. Because it's a browser problem with some web-mail clients I think it would happend with other newer Hobo realeases too.

When the user clicks on the link below:

http://myserver/users/123456-username/activate?key=64793369eac2b9763a11f9d2d4da92eb71dfbd34

the browser opens

http://myserver/users/123456-username/activate?

(without the key string).

I think one possible solution is a better embedded link in the validation email with HTML.

Right now:

<%= user_activate_url :host => @host, :id => @user, :key => @key %>

So I use a HTML MIME format creating the following file:

       activation.text.html.erb 

And puntting inside the activation link in a proper HTML tag

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<% @user_lang_link = "Click here to activate your account"   %>  

<% @new_html_url = user_activate_url :host => @host, :id => @user, :key => @key %>

<p> <a href="<%= @new_html_url %>"><%= @user_lang_link %></a> </p>

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I only found this because the large number of new users in different platforms, including mobile activations. 

Hope that this solution would be useful for you...

Best regards

Eddie

[Ignacio Huerta]

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Hi,

This is an interesting problem. I suggest that instead of using a HTML
link by default, we use a custom route, something like:

http://myserver/users/123456-username/activate/64793369eac2b9763a11f9d2d4da92eb71dfbd34

I just created a ticket in Lighthouse about this:
https://hobo.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8324-hobo/tickets/1022-possible-issue-with-default-activation-link-with-some-browserswebmails

Regards,
Ignacio

El 02/10/12 19:16, erbecke escribi�:

> Hi everybody.
>
> I have a website running on Hobo 1.0 with thousands of registered

> to deal with this:users. Lately I've found a new problem with the

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[Bryan Larsen]

That sounds like a good idea. You up for implementing it?

Bryan

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Ignacio Huerta <ign...@ihuerta.net> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> This is an interesting problem. I suggest that instead of using a HTML
> link by default, we use a custom route, something like:
>
> http://myserver/users/123456-username/activate/64793369eac2b9763a11f9d2d4da92eb71dfbd34
>
> I just created a ticket in Lighthouse about this:
> https://hobo.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8324-hobo/tickets/1022-possible-issue-with-default-activation-link-with-some-browserswebmails
>
> Regards,
> Ignacio
>

> El 02/10/12 19:16, erbecke escribió:

> Teléfono: 0034 645 70 77 35

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[Ignacio Huerta]

Sure, I'll give it a try tomorrow :)

El 06/10/12 13:16, Bryan Larsen escribi�:

> That sounds like a good idea. You up for implementing it?
>
> Bryan
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Ignacio Huerta

> <ign...@ihuerta.net> wrote: Hi,

>
> This is an interesting problem. I suggest that instead of using a
> HTML link by default, we use a custom route, something like:
>
> http://myserver/users/123456-username/activate/64793369eac2b9763a11f9d2d4da92eb71dfbd34
>
> I just created a ticket in Lighthouse about this:
> https://hobo.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8324-hobo/tickets/1022-possible-issue-with-default-activation-link-with-some-browserswebmails
>
> Regards, Ignacio
>

> El 02/10/12 19:16, erbecke escribi�:

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[Ignacio Huerta]

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Hi Eddie,

We have pushed a small change to Hobo that should take care of this
problem (https://github.com/Hobo/hobo/pull/2).

Regards,
Ignacio

El 02/10/12 19:16, erbecke escribi�:

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[Eddie Rodriguez von der Becke]

Amazing job. 

Thank you! 

I'll try it in a few days.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Ignacio Huerta <ign...@ihuerta.net> wrote:

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Hi Eddie,

We have pushed a small change to Hobo that should take care of this
problem (https://github.com/Hobo/hobo/pull/2).

Regards,
Ignacio

El 02/10/12 19:16, erbecke escribió:

Teléfono: 0034 645 70 77 35