Problem Note 33513: Recipients of SAS® Digital Marketing e-mails can change the destination Web site of any tracked URLs
SAS Digital Marketing enables you to place tracked links in any e-mail broadcast. The links redirect the recipient to a specific Web site. However, it is possible for the e-mail recipient to change the destination Web site. For example, suppose the broadcast link is as follows:
http://www.company.com/bess/redir?path=http://www.sas.com
The recipient can change the target Web site ( www.sas.com) to some other site, as shown in this example:
http://www.company.com/bess/redir?path=http://any-site.com
To disable this functionality, modify the web.xml file that is associated with the bess.war file. Replace every instance of <param-value>redir_disabled</param-value> with <param-value>true</param-value>.
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Operating System and Release Information
| SAS System | SAS Digital Marketing | Microsoft® Windows® for x64 | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Windows Vista | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| HP-UX IPF | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Linux | 5.1 | | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
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Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be
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| Type: | Problem Note |
| Priority: | high |
| Date Modified: | 2010-04-28 11:25:59 |
| Date Created: | 2008-10-03 08:49:09 |
