Referrer field to header field conversion

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 15735
interpreted = N
texte = Hello Again!A while ago I asked how to take the initial referrer of a visitor to my web site and put this info in their shopping cart for later reference. I got some excellent suggestions, but I still can't seem to make it work. The problem is the visitor comes to an entry page, then clicks the big pretty graphic to actually enter the site, in the process doing a search, and generating a cart value. ( I now realise that this isn't required, as you can do embedded searches (which I do), and generate cart numbers later, but anyway...) I want to add the Header30=[referrer] tag, something like this... This doesn't work, because you apparently can't add info to a cart value (after all it only exists as a number in a URL) so then I tried... which creates a cart file, doesn't append the referrer into it, and will cause a problem if anybody uses the back button after shopping for a while to get back to the search screen! so then I tried... but this was doomed to fail as I have no SKU with a value of 0 and I really have NO desire to add any line items to the shopping cart file at this time. (not to mention stupid customer questions that I would invariable hear as a result of this!)So again I am exactly where I started...nowhere.What I need is a $create? command to create a shopping cart file so I can play with the headers without adding any line items. Or is there another way I am overlooking?Brian B. BurtonP.S. I installed webcatalog 2.01 updater last night, and ever since then my shopping carts have only lasted 2 hours before being auto deleted. I thought it was (is) supposed to be 24 Hours? Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Referrer field to header field conversion (Kenneth Grome 1997)
  2. Re: Referrer field to header field conversion (Michael Winston 1997)
  3. Re: Referrer field to header field conversion (Brian B. Burton 1997)
  4. Re: Referrer field to header field conversion (Pat McCormick 1997)
  5. Re: Referrer field to header field conversion (Sandra L. Pitner 1997)
  6. Re: Referrer field to header field conversion (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  7. Referrer field to header field conversion (Brian B. Burton 1997)
Hello Again!A while ago I asked how to take the initial referrer of a visitor to my web site and put this info in their shopping cart for later reference. I got some excellent suggestions, but I still can't seem to make it work. The problem is the visitor comes to an entry page, then clicks the big pretty graphic to actually enter the site, in the process doing a search, and generating a cart value. ( I now realise that this isn't required, as you can do embedded searches (which I do), and generate cart numbers later, but anyway...) I want to add the Header30=[referrer] tag, something like this... [url][referrer][/url]&cart=[cart]&db=mypro d.txt&geSKU=0> This doesn't work, because you apparently can't add info to a cart value (after all it only exists as a number in a URL) so then I tried... [url][referrer][/url]&cart=[cart]> which creates a cart file, doesn't append the referrer into it, and will cause a problem if anybody uses the back button after shopping for a while to get back to the search screen! so then I tried... [url][referrer][/url]&cart=[cart]&db=myprod.t xt&sku=0> but this was doomed to fail as I have no SKU with a value of 0 and I really have NO desire to add any line items to the shopping cart file at this time. (not to mention stupid customer questions that I would invariable hear as a result of this!)So again I am exactly where I started...nowhere.What I need is a $create? command to create a shopping cart file so I can play with the headers without adding any line items. Or is there another way I am overlooking?Brian B. BurtonP.S. I installed webcatalog 2.01 updater last night, and ever since then my shopping carts have only lasted 2 hours before being auto deleted. I thought it was (is) supposed to be 24 Hours? Brian B. Burton

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