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12/31/2010 3:47 AM

deadBird

Joined: 8/8/2008

Posts: 22

tracking email reads

I'm sending out newsletters, and to keep track of who reads it, I will have a small transparent image the loads with the userid in the path. Utilizing an httpmodule should do the trick.

Here's my reference article:
http://www.aspnetemail.com/samples/em...

However it does not appear to work in Dotnetnuke at all. It doesn't even seem to load. It's in the web.config like it should be, and I've restarted. I've followed the directions, but I cannot seem to get it working. :(

12/31/2010 4:02 AM

Chris Hammond

www.christoc.com
Joined: 1/14/2003

Posts: 7319

Re: tracking email reads

If you try turning off the FriendlyURLs in the Host/Host Settings does it work properly? You likely need to tell DNN to ignore that specific path as it's trying to load a DNN page based on the path.

Chris Hammond
Former DNN Corp Employee, MVP, Core Team Member, Trustee
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12/31/2010 4:10 AM

deadBird

Joined: 8/8/2008

Posts: 22

Re: tracking email reads

It doesn't appear to make any difference. I have my class in a vb file in the app_code directory. and I added the section to root web.config file in the section. Is that all accurate?

1/4/2011 4:48 AM

deadBird

Joined: 8/8/2008

Posts: 22

Re: tracking email reads

I got the read receipt working, however I ended up using a much simpler method. All I did was add the module to a new page with the following code.

'get param
Param = request.queryString("param")

'do db work
DBwork()

'show image
Response.ContentType = "image/gif"
Response.WriteFile("~\images\1x1.gif")
Response.End()

The great thing about it is spam filters probably won't be triggered because I pass my subscriber's ID as part of the path, instead of a name=value pair.

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