ADDING QUICK-APPROVE LINKS IN WHITELIST EMAIL REQUESTS

[hi-seas]

Has anyone figured out how to add links in the emails from OpenDNS that allow the admin reading the email to quickly click a single URL in the email to approve a domain?

It takes us too many steps to approve domains.  We actually seemed to lose capability in this regard in our upgrade from OpenDNS to an Umbrella account:

We would like to be able to:

1. customize the emails we receive from OpenDNS when a whitelist request is made by our users, and MOST IMPORTANT:

2. Have OpenDNS automatically generate the following dynamic links in the whitelist requests sent to admins:

   A. To automatically whitelist this domain to your active whitelist policy, CLICK HERE (linked automatically with no login required)

   B. To NOT approve this page for whitelist, take no action.  CLICK HERE [auto-linked to a reply form without login] to reply to the user who sumitted the request with an explanation (optional).

Anyone solve this already?  Appreciate guidance.

Marc

[hi-seas]

Is there an API/CGI/other way I can build a url that auto logs-in and adds an item to a whitelist?

This would be ideal, as an example:

https://[my-username]:[my-password]@dashboard2.opendns.com&domain_list="Global_Allow"&action=add_site&site="http://[site to add]

is this capability already hidden in the api's or site scripting???


Warm regards,

Marc

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[rotblitz]

"is this capability already hidden in the api's or site scripting???"

Not that it was officially known.

[hi-seas]

@rotblitz: can you tell me more via private email (Marc.a.seibert "at" nasa.gov).

I understand if you don't want to post info this here.

[rotblitz]

Sorry, I meant to say that I do not have more information, and I do not think this feature is available.

[rotblitz]

However:

"https://[my-username]:[my-password]@dashboard2.opendns.com&domain_list="Global_Allow"&action=add_site&site="http://[site to add]"

You can't add "sites" anyway, just domain names, so the part "&site="http://[site to add]"
(which is a URL, not a "site" or domain) would better be "&domain="[domain to add]"

If you want to get an idea, you could check e.g. https://dashboard.opendns.com/stats/all/blockeddomains to see how this is done when clicking the "unblock this domain" link.  But even if you succeed with finding the URL to add domains to the whitelist this way, the link would still not appear in the e-mail request.