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Re: [Jersey] How do you redirect to a different URL

From: António Mota <amsmota_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 21:37:11 +0000

One other way to handle this is to create a IMAP connector to handle the
incoming mails, even because not all email clients support HTML...

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On 2 March 2010 17:51, Kevin Duffey <andjarnic_at_yahoo.com> wrote:

> Good info Felipe. Sounds like exactly what I was doing, and like you said
> in your blog, which is why I sent this email to the list, it is bugging me
> that I know this is NOT a RESTful way to handle this. Like you, I hate the
> idea of doing something knowing full well it's wrong. A lot of companies
> seem to work like this.. just to get something out there they are willing to
> have it done wrong to rush it.
>
> --- On *Tue, 3/2/10, Felipe Gaścho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Felipe Gaścho <fgaucho_at_gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Jersey] How do you redirect to a different URL
> To: users_at_jersey.dev.java.net
> Date: Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 8:55 AM
>
>
> http://java.dzone.com/articles/pedantic-guide-restful
>
> a good way is to call a URI of a web application and let the application to
> communicate with the restful service.. this way you have 2 benefits:
>
> 1) your customer is already in the application, so no need of redirections
> in the RESt side
> 2) the REST continue "pure", because a GET method is idempotent and if you
> use a link direct in the RESt service it means your confirmation GET will
> change the state of a resource.. not good :)
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Kevin Duffey <andjarnic@yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=andjarnic@yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I have set up a simple email link that does a call to my service to
>> "verify" the email. First off, I am probably doing this wrong.. not sure an
>> email link should be calling a REST URL, but for now that is how I have it
>> set up. I suppose I could call a servlet directly, just thought I'd try with
>> using a URL to my rest service. It may not meet the "RESTFUL" criteria and
>> make my API unrestful.
>>
>> That said, the first URL that is called as a service is a developer signup
>> page.. the user would fill out some developer info, then submit it. My web
>> page (bundled with my jersey services) uses javascript to make the POST
>> request with the data. That data including email is then used to send out a
>> "verify" email. In it I provide a link to the same service with 2 query
>> params, the email and the generated ID from the previous step (generated by
>> storing the developer info into the DB and returning the ID that was
>> generated). My goal is to use this ID to match up to the right person in the
>> database, setting its "active" flag to true. All of this works. Clicking on
>> the email calls the service just fine. But, since the email is usually from
>> within a web browser (or an email client that would then launch a web
>> browser), I want to redirect the user back to a "you are verified" html
>> page.
>>
>> I've set the status to 301, just not sure what method to call to set the
>> URL that the redirect goes back to. Does that have to be the location()
>> method, entity() method, or set as a header somehow?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>
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