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pmflyboy 
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 Topic: hotmail.com Activation Problem
Posted: 04 January 2005 at 11:59am |
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Hey all. I did some searching on the forums and couldn't find an answer to this. So, here's my problem:
It seems that anyone that uses a hotmail.com e-mail account to register cannot successfully activate his/her account. They get the typical "there is a problem with your activataion...please e-mail the administrator...etc.".
I'm guessing this happens since links in a Hotmail e-mail open in a new window in a frame (the top frame says something about "you are visiting a site outside of Hotmail"...and the bottom frame is WWF page).
Has anyone else seen this happen? Any ideas on how to fix it?
As always, thanks for the great help!!!
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Posted: 04 January 2005 at 12:30pm |
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Having the link open in a new window shouldn't effect the link.
As long as the code is still attached to the end of the link it should work.
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Posted: 04 January 2005 at 12:35pm |
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Hotmail does something funky with the link though. It does opens it in a new window (which, as you said, isn't a problem...lots of e-mail programs do this). However, that new window consists of 2 frames (a small top frame with text that says "you are visiting a site outside of hotmail", and the bottom frame that has the actual page...in this case, the WWF page). It simply doesn't seem to work. I've had a few Hotmail people complain about this already.
So, I guess the question is...
If that special activation link is opened in a frameset, would it break it?
Thanks boRg...and keep it up. Your stuff is great.
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Posted: 04 January 2005 at 2:01pm |
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A frameset shouldn't prevent the activation link from working.
Although Hotemail accounts are always a pain.
On this site I have setup the forum not to allow Hotmail email
addresses, the main reason for this is that Hotmail anti-spam settings
very often bounce back emails that are sent by applications/scripts on
sites.
Blocking Hotmail email addresses doesn't seem to be a big problem, out
of 7,000 people who have signed up to this board I only have had around
1 or 2 emails per year from people about not being able to use,
Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL, email addresses.
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xeerex
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Posted: 04 January 2005 at 2:12pm |
Hotmail accounts are indeed a pain in the arse due to the framing crap
that MS pulled a couple of years ago. I dug around the internet while
working on a separate project for a "frame buster" script. Also, this
has been documented a few times here on the board.
Frame buster script
http://www.rexpage.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=272&KW= hotmail
Thread on Hotmail and WWG with another script
http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=12 329&KW=hotmail
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Posted: 04 January 2005 at 3:35pm |
Interesting way to handle it. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
It's strange that some Hotmail users seem to be fine and have no problems signing up for an account while others get stuck in cookie hell (I'm guessing it's a cookie issue).
Regardless, thanks for the links. When will MS learn?! 
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