How to reduce length of password reset link MVC5

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I am using this method to generate a password reset link. Everything works great but the callback URL has a huge token. I was asked if there was a way to reduce the length of URL.
As this is a framework generated code, i could not do much.
You can find this implementation in any MVC 5 template by default.

await UserManager.GeneratePasswordResetTokenAsync()

Please share your opinions if there is any way to achieve this using still the same method.

Thanks in advance for your time and effort.

Posted 21-Oct-14 14:40pm

MohseenJ

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Oct-14 22:56pm

What's so bad about huge token, if the procedure guarantees required safety?
—SA

MohseenJ 22-Oct-14 13:47pm

Hello Sergey, i understand your concern. I too felt the same way that it would b more secure with having framework create code. But that seems too long to user.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Oct-14 14:10pm

The user should not directly type this URL and does not even have to see it...
—SA

MohseenJ 22-Oct-14 14:26pm

I am sending this url in Email.. And there are two formats of email.. Html format for sure user will not see it. But the plain text format user is able to see.. Please suggest if there is any work around

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2014-10-21T15:58:00

I was wondering if something like TinyURL http://tinyurl.com/[^] would help, but, they don't have an API

I wonder if there's any service 'like that' that has a API - or can be used 'programmatically' - maybe screen-scraping to their site, but you would have to heck the terms and conditions etc first

[update] there a discussion here on SO that *might* give some more options [/update] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3671043/methods-of-reducing-url-size[^]