In an general sense, I suppose it would be possible to set up a persistent hash where the key is a unique ID and the value is the parameters. When generating the email, the parameters would be stripped off the URL, and stored in the hash against a new unique key. The key would then be added to the URL. When the CGI is run, it would look up the values against the key.

That's pretty much what I envisaged, but why not have two hashes going both ways. The keys of the other hash are the params and the value is the unique id. Then when you generate the email look to see if the id for this combination of params already exists, and if it doesn't generate one and insert a record in both hashes

My objection to this is it's not possible to tell when a given hash entry can be safely deleted.

I think that under my scheme, as you're reusing the same id for the same combination of parameters you won't need to delete entries from the hashes.

I may be misunderstanding the problem tho'.

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Encoding/compress CGI GET parameters by davorg
in thread Encoding/compress CGI GET parameters by snellm

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