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 <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Bram de Jong <bram.dej...@gmail.com> > 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 > > > > Beware of url-shorteners, if they throw away information then you are > weakening the security of the URL. The one Eric suggested will only > compress integers, so you would need to generate an id for each reset, > which will have less address space than the md5 currently used. > > How are you presenting the URL? Obviously, in HTML emails this isn't > an issue at all, simply link to the URL. In text emails, if the URL is > presented on a single line, by itself, surrounded by angle brackets, > all email clients should be able to handle it (apart from the broken > ones of course!) > > Cheers > > Tom > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
