Search Again: Re: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method From: Shawn Hogan Date: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 Time: 3:32:35 pm ISP List wrote: > In the Customer Web Interface, it allows a customer to delete their E-mail > addresses if they are so inclined (and if you allow it in the Prefs). The > way it appears to be done is that a temporary array/table is created inside > OG of the customer's E-mail addresses, and each address is assigned a > temporary Record ID. When the Delete button is pressed, this Record ID is > passed to the CDML and then the "Emails Web" Script does the > delete. Anyway, we've run in to these problems with that method: > > 1. If a customer deletes the address and the list of remaining E-mail > addresses comes back up (the default behavior), and then they click Refresh > in the browser (and choose Yes to repost to the page), the E-mail address > which _now_ has the ID of the one they originally deleted gets deleted. Ouch. > > 2. If someone logs in to an account and someone else does so at the same > time, a similiar scenario to the one above is also possible as the data > integrity is not assured with two people in the account at once (e.g. if > there are 5 addresses and person A deletes the fourth one, and person B > tries to delete one, the record ID would have changed as a result of person > A's actions and person B may be deleting the wrong address and not realize > it). > > It seems to me the easy solution would be to pass the actual E-mail address > itself instead of a Record ID to the "Emails Web" Script. Is there a > reason this is not being done or ? Mainly because the query is done within the customer file (not the services file). So internally it "jumps" to email xx for that customer to perform whatever actions are needed. - Shawn ---------------------------------- Shawn D. Hogan President, Digital Point Solutions http://www.digitalpoint.com (858) 452-3696 --------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe or to search list archive please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists/isp.html ---------------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method by Mike Bacher on Dec 31, 2002 at 3:23:39 pm Re: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method by Shawn Hogan on Dec 31, 2002 at 3:32:35 pm Re: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method by Mike Bacher on Dec 31, 2002 at 3:39:14 pm Re: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method by Shawn Hogan on Dec 31, 2002 at 3:43:38 pm Re: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method by Mike Bacher on Dec 31, 2002 at 6:28:34 pm Re: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method by Shawn Hogan on Dec 31, 2002 at 7:23:34 pm Re: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method by Mike Bacher on Dec 31, 2002 at 10:17:54 pm Re: Unsafe E-Mail Delete method by Shawn Hogan on Jan 1, 2003 at 2:05:18 pm