<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There is a module waiting for approval on <a href="http://Drupal.org">Drupal.org</a> that creates direct links to nodes and users based on a UUID assigned by the UUID module, in the form <a href="http://example.com/uuid/xxx-xxx-xxx">example.com/uuid/xxx-xxx-xxx</a> etc.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://drupal.org/node/894786">http://drupal.org/node/894786</a><br><div><br><div><div>On 08/11/2010, at 10:16 PM, Greenman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hi Folks<div><br></div><div>I use this pattern often, but have not found a module that does it, so I could just not know the correct name for things. </div><div><br></div><div>* Create a unique key, normally an MD5 hash</div>
<div>* assign a set of data to the key and store this in the DB</div><div>* Create a url with this key in it</div><div>* When someone visits this url, load my stored data and do a bunch of things</div><div><br></div><div>
I use this for obfuscated action urls, transactions and various other things, and keep doubting that I am the only one doing this. The url bit of this is just a use case, the main functionality I find myself building is the tool to create and retrieve datasets. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Any existing module for this ? </div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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