posted 14 years ago
The basic problem is a reset password functionality for one-way password encryption. The desired functionality would be to send the user a unique link that leads him to a page where he can type in a new password. But the link should expire after a certain time (such as 48 hours). It also should of course work once to reset the password with this link.
Can anybody give me any pointers where to start even on the issue of pages/links that expire after a certain time after creation? I've tried googling it, but I'm not getting anywhere. Is there a specific term for this concept that I could look for? Any books that might cover an issue like this? Or is there no way to do it other than track the creation and destruction of pages like that through database+scheduling framework?