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[Olivier Salaun <address@concealed>]

address@concealed wrote:
> 
> I'd like to be able to build a URL that will request wwsympa to send a
> user's password to them.  I don't want them to see the normal
> remindpasswd screen, and I'm going to construct their email
> address....  I then want sympa to redirect back to my other web app...
> 
> We can presume that they're subscribed to some list and have a
> password already.
> 
> (I'm not letting them see it or fill in the form because it will
> confuse them in the context that it's coming from.)
> 
> I see there is magic that seems to enable url's something like this:
> "http://address@concealed/referer/url.to.go.to";
> 
> But I can't quite get it right.
> 
> Is this possible?

Not only possible but already coded and documented :
http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/distribution/current/doc/sympa/node5.html#SECTION00590000000000000000

It works the way you expect it, except 2 things :
        o you can't provide the user's email address in the URL
        o you can't provide the referer, it uses the HTTP_REFERER

If you can use a FORM instead of an URL, you can do it this way :

 <FORM ACTION="/wws" METHOD=POST> 
   <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="referer" VALUE="YOUR_URL">
   <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="action" VALUE="sendpasswd">
   <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="email" VALUE="THE_USER_EMAIL">

   <INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="action_sendpasswd" VALUE="My password ?">
 </FORM> 

This way, you do the sendpasswd, without prompting the user for his/her
email address.

This fe

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Olivier Salaün
Comité Réseaux des Universités