LinkTracker Class

Tracks subscribers who clicked on a link in a newsletter issue.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
  CMS.Newsletters.LinkTracker

Namespace: CMS.Newsletters
Assembly: CMS.Newsletters (in CMS.Newsletters.dll) Version: 12.0.0

Syntax

public class LinkTracker : IHttpHandler

The LinkTracker type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
Public method	LinkTracker

Properties

	Name	Description
Protected property	Email	Gets email from query string parameter.
Protected property	Hash	Gets hash from query string parameter.
Public property	IsReusable	Gets whether this handler can be reused for other request; always returns true.
Protected property	LinkGuid	Gets link GUID from query string parameter.
Protected property	Ping	Gets ping from query string parameter.

Methods

	Name	Description
Protected method	GetLinkUrl	Retrieves the original URL given the arguments and logs the request.
Public method	ProcessRequest(HttpContext)	Processes the tracking data and redirects request to original URL.
Protected method	ProcessRequest(HttpContextBase)	Processes the tracking data and redirects request to original URL.

Remarks

Handles all modified links that were converted to the tracking ones via ConvertToTracking(String, IssueInfo, NewsletterInfo, SiteInfo, String). Besides guids related to the email, every link has subscriber's email and its salted hash, which is used to validate the link. Emails sent prior to version 9 won't be logging contact activities, nor set up Online marketing context. A redirect to the original URL is sent in the response.