fedkris
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time condition in asp - respect time zone
hey,
i want, that invitations are send between 8 oclock in the morning, and 5 oclock afternoon.
if the thime, is not between these two hours, we don't send a mail
UTC (+1:00) belgium
we don't want, that, hackers, send mails in the night, so, is there a solution, to have a contition, respectiong our time zone?
thx for help, asp or other script, thx
kristof
i want, that invitations are send between 8 oclock in the morning, and 5 oclock afternoon.
if the thime, is not between these two hours, we don't send a mail
UTC (+1:00) belgium
we don't want, that, hackers, send mails in the night, so, is there a solution, to have a contition, respectiong our time zone?
thx for help, asp or other script, thx
kristof
Big Monty
just to make sure I understand, you want to send out emails between 8am and 5pm of the users time zone, correct? to do that, you're going to need to know what time zone they reside in and then calculate whether or not they're in the right time frame by using the Now() function to get the current time.
First, I assume you have an ASP page that is set up for sending mail. If that is the case you will first want to set up an event in your server's task scheduler to run the page every x minutes or hours between the time frame. That is if you need it done automatically.
What I do is have a vbs script outside of the public website that gets hit from my task scheduler. That vbs script does a post to the ASP page and posts some security info. Then my ASP page looks for the security info before it accepts any input.
I could just as easily do all the mail in my vbs script, the reason I don't is I use the ASP page for multiple other public pages.
You can also look for the time in your ASP page and if it is not in the time frame, skip any sending.
What I do is have a vbs script outside of the public website that gets hit from my task scheduler. That vbs script does a post to the ASP page and posts some security info. Then my ASP page looks for the security info before it accepts any input.
I could just as easily do all the mail in my vbs script, the reason I don't is I use the ASP page for multiple other public pages.
You can also look for the time in your ASP page and if it is not in the time frame, skip any sending.
<%
if hour(now()) >= 8 and hour(now()) <=17 then
' run my code
end if
%> ASKER
hey,
the idea is, my question is:
a few days ago, we were hacked, a nights, and we sended empty mails tou people in our database. An idea was, we work from 8 till 17 (afternoon), is there a solution, we can work with timetable (UTC (+1:00) belgium ), if we are not open, anyone that will activate a send command in our sendpage, will refuse the send.
so our members will not receive those fake mails at night anymore.
thx
the idea is, my question is:
a few days ago, we were hacked, a nights, and we sended empty mails tou people in our database. An idea was, we work from 8 till 17 (afternoon), is there a solution, we can work with timetable (UTC (+1:00) belgium ), if we are not open, anyone that will activate a send command in our sendpage, will refuse the send.
so our members will not receive those fake mails at night anymore.
thx
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