Can I trace the email whoever hits on the weblink

Question

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 wayI can track the email id that is hitting on the link. Regards Ratish.Nair

Nilesh Shah · 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

Ratish Nair · Answer

Thanks Nilesh I have already implemented the expiry part. Regards Ratish.Nair