I was wondering if anyone had this issue before. We have the emailer send emails out to our clients and inside this email, there is a link to their appropriate download. However, once it reaches SOME clients, the link seems to be missing a few characters (rendering the link useless).
I've check through the sysmail_mailitems but the body of the email I pull from there has the correct link. Just for some reason for some clients the characters are missing.
Has anyone had something weird like this happen? Also, the characters missing in the link are in the exact same spots.
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I was creating an API for TD Ameritrade (my first time creating or dealing with APIs) and I needed to put in my own call back URL. I know that callback URL is where the API sends information to and i heard that I can just use my localhost API. I scoured the internet and I dont know how that would work and I was wondering if i can just use http://localhost?
Sorry if I seem like a noob because I am
In short, yes.
Follow the excellent directions at
https://www.reddit.com/r/algotrading/comments/c81vzq/td_ameritrade_api_access_2019_guide/. (Even with them, I spent excessive time on trial and error!)
Since stackoverflow has a limit of 8 links in a response, and the localhost text string looks like a link, I’m showing it with the colon replaced by a semicolon, i.e., http;//localhost to reduce the link count. Sorry.
I used the Chrome browser after first trying Brave, which did not work for, possibly because of my option selections.
Go to https://developer.tdameritrade.com/user/me/apps
Add a new app using http;//localhost (delete existing app if there is one).
Copy the resulting consumer key text string (AKA client_id or OAuth User ID).
Go to https://developer.tdameritrade.com/content/simple-auth-local-apps, follow instructions. Note: leading/trailing blanks were inserted by MSWord due to copy/paste of the auth code, which had to be manually deleted after wasting excessive time identifying the problem. The address string looks like:
https://auth.tdameritrade.com/auth?response_type=code&redirect_uri=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost&client_id=ConsumerKeyTextString%40AMER.OAUTHAP
This returns a page stating the server refused to connect, but the address bar now contains a VeryLongStringOfCharacters in the address bar:
https;//localhost/?code= VeryLongStringOfCharacters
Copy the contents of the address bar, go to https://www.urldecoder.org/, decode the above, and extract the text after “code=”. This is your refresh_token
Go to: https://developer.tdameritrade.com/authentication/apis/post/token-0, fill out the fields with
grant_type=authorization_code
refresh_token=<<blank>>
access_type=offline
code=RefreshTokenTextString
client_id=ConsumerKeyTextString#AMER.OAUTHAP
redirect_uri=http://localhost
Press SEND.
If the resulting page starts with HTTP/1.1 200 OK, you have succeeded.
Try updating your redirect to:
redirect_uri=https://localhost
They may require https now and you need a colon instead of a semicolon. Everything looks correct. This process generally takes me more then one attempt, and 15 minutes to an hour to get my refresh token squared away every 90 days.
dont use #AMER.OAUTHAP in client_id
If you generate a new code and based on that try to get a new access token. it should work.
I have this project where I need to know if a visitor legitimately arrived from a QR code. Document.referrer value from a QR code shows blank. I have looked at some answers suggesting to put parameter in the query string (e.g. ?source=qr), but anyone could easily add the parameter into the URL and my code would believe it is from a QR code (e.g. www.project.com/check.page?source=qr) . I have thought of adding codes to make sure it is from a mobile phone / tablet as secondary way to authenticate but many browsers have add-ons to fool websites.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I think the best solution for you is creating your regional QR Codes pointing to:
Region 1) http://example.com/?qr=f61060194c9c6763bb63385782aa216f
Region 2) http://example.com/?qr=731417b947aa548528344fab8e0f29b6
Region 3) http://example.com/?qr=df189e7f7c8b89edd05ccc6aec36c36d
if the value of the parameter qr is anything other than f61060194c9c6763bb63385782aa216f, 731417b947aa548528344fab8e0f29b6 or df189e7f7c8b89edd05ccc6aec36c36d, then you can ignore it and assume the user didn't come from any QR Code.
Of course, any user can remove the source parameter. But at least he can't add a valid one, unless he really had access to the code.
...but anyone could easily add the parameter into the URL and my code would believe it is from a QR code
Well, anyone could also scan the QR code, view the link, and remove the source=qr from it.
Data collection is never 100% reliable. Users can change their browser's user agent, inject cookies with some strange values, open your page through a proxy server, and so on.
You could create your own device or App for scanning the QR-code. If you read the post I've linked, you will see that this is a waste of time and resources.
So, what is left is to make a solution which will work for most of the users. Appending a source=qr parameter to your URL seems to be the simplest solution. You could also link to an entirely different domain and redirect the request, so it would be more fraud-safe. But it will never be 100% accurate.
I've encountered a bug with the google.com:RecipientToEmailExtractor extractor. When receiving an email from an address looking like a.b.cdef#gmail.com (1 letter followed by 1 period), the extracted address I get is abcdef#gmail.com. The periods are removed. ab.cd.ef#gmail.com has no issues and extracts the correct address.
And the issue is only with the To address. From and CC extractors are ok.
Is there a way to correct this?
Also, since I couldn't find the proper channel to report this issue (no Google Group or issues page), where can I submit a bug report?
Google found me a link for GAS bugs: https://code.google.com/p/google-apps-script-issues/issues/list
Short-term you could write a function to always remove dots from addresses before comparing. Here's a suggestion from StackOverflow using regex: Filtering periods out of email addresses with regex You might want to consider that "+" can be used, too. See Looking for a regex to match a gmail plus address
As for the proper channel, I recall (but can't find the info now) that the Google Group for GAS at one time specified that questions should be asked in Stack Overflow. I had posted a few GAS questions in Web Apps and asked them to be migrated here for that reason.
So my friend hosts a little get together every once in a while where space is limited to the first 14 people who RSVP. He emails the invite out to a list and then accepts the first people who respond. Tonight I barely got in because I can't always check my email, so I told him that I would write a program that would respond instantly to his request. This would not normally be a problem (autoresponder, easy) except he has recently created an online signup form. I think it would be funny for him to send out his next invite and get a sub-100ms response from me, so I would like to give this a try.
The problem is, I'm not quite sure how to go about it without going to to much expense. I have a personal site that can host some .NET backend code, but it's on a shared GoDaddy server so I don't really have a ton of access to the mailserver or anything. I was thinking that if I could get an email sent to a certain address that maybe it could trigger a webrequest that could pull down his page and then fill the (very simple, like 2 or 3 inputs) form out and submit it, but again, I'm not quite sure how.
Would anyone have an idea about how I could go about this? I would want for this to happen automatically without any sort of interaction from me, just basically as soon as I get an email from a certain email address, somehow my code is triggered and the form filled out and submitted.
This is just for fun, but the programmer in me is curious as to how I could actually get this to work.
Thanks!
The most affordable thing I know of would be through NearlyFreeSpeech.NET. If you set up an account there, you can configure a domain with email forwarding for 3 cents/day. They have an option to forward the email to a script, so you could write something that would look at the mail, pull down the form, and post to a server.
I'm not sure but I think the script has to be running on their servers, so you'll have to set up a website (another few cents per day) and write the script to run in a UNIX environment (PHP or Perl or such). If you insist on .NET, you could write a minimal PHP script to forward the data to your GoDaddy account.
We're in the middle of writing a lot of URL rewrite code that would basically take ourdomain.com/SomeTag and some something dynamic to figure out what to display.
Now if the Tag doesn't exist in our system, we're gonna display some information helping them finding what they were looking for.
And now the question came up, do we need to send a 404 header? Should we? Are there any reasons to do it or not to do it?
Thanks
Nathan
You aren't required to, but it can be useful for automated checkers to detect the response code instead of having to parse the page.
I certainly send proper response codes in my applications, especially when I have database errors or other fatal errors. Then the search engine knows to give up and retry in 5 mins instead of indexing the page. e.g. code 503 for "Service Unavailable" and I also send a Retry-After: 600 to tell it to try again...search engines won't take this badly.
404 codes are sent when the page should not be indexed or doesn't exist (e.g. non-existent tag)
So yes, do send status codes.
I say do it - if the user is actually an application acting on behalf of the user (i.e. cURL, wget, something custom, etc...) then a 404 would actually help quite a bit.
You have to keep in mind that the result code you return is not for the user; for the standard user, error codes are meaningless so don't display this info to the user.
However think about what could happen if the crawlers access your pages and consider them valid (with a 200 response); they will start indexing the content and your page will be added to the index. If you tell the search engine to index the same content for all your not found pages, it will certainly affect your ranking and if one page appears in the top search results, you will look like a fool.