Confirm via unique link in email

[RRinTetons]

On a lot of sites when you join a group or request a product or service an email is generated with a unique key and sent to the user. The user must click a link in the email to be directed to a web site where they may be prompted to enter the unique key or perform some other authentication task.

Does anyone have a link to a tutorial or an example of how this is done? I want to shoehorn it into an existing web site if possible - the site runs on IIS and uses a LOT of .NET and C#, so those kinds of examples would be best.

Of course, I'm not a fan of wheel reinventing, so if there's a product out there that I can buy completed and use I'll look at that option, too.

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Richard Ray
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

 

[Vragabond]

I say you seek help in forum855.

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[vacunita]

Or in forum434

Usually a server side language is employed to generate such mails and unique keys and to validate the keys in the website the email sends you to.






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