Can I trace the email whoever hits on the weblink

Ratish Nair

Hi,

I am looking for a solution wherein we want to track email id's of whoever hit the link of our company website.We are a service company and forward our paid report to our paying clients.but sometimes these clients forward these email to others who might not be our clients.In such a scenario they can only send the link and the said person has to click the link from his email id.Is there a way,I can track the email id that is hitting on the link.

Regards,

Ratish.Nair

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Nilesh Shah8y ago
Accepted answer
Hi,

the email is just an HTML, so the links in an email can be clicked from anywhere, even can be copied to other apps like word, etc. and anyone can click, so this is absolutely not a solution. and your reports should not be accessible simply by a link, there must be some authentication.

you have to use other options like:
- use 2 factor authentication, on top of user name/password, they also have to use an OTP
- make the links self expiring i.e. generate GUID and use those in links, those GUIDs have expiration time of lets say 24 hours or so
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Ratish Nair8y ago
Thanks Nilesh,

I have already implemented the expiry part.

Regards,

Ratish.Nair
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