Re: WebTV, IPAddress, Cookies, IDEAS??

This WebDNA talk-list message is from

1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 20970
interpreted = N
texte = ...if your site requires users to maintain a static IP address during their sessions, please contact WebTV Customer Service at 1-800-GO-WEBTV. (http://developer.webtv.net/articles/proxy/proxies.htm)Hope this helps.-Dave At 4:54 PM 11/11/98, Scott Szretter wrote: >We found that WebTV uses dynamic IP addresses that seem to change at some >point during using web catalog. > >Some of our clients carts use IP address for the [cart] variable as >instructed by Pacific tech support because we have add buttons on a >different server than the web catalog server, and thus use an addlineitem >command and pass in ip address. > >So as you can see, this is a problem - items get added to one ip address, >and when they check out, the address changes, and they no longer have any >items because the look like a different user!! > >Any ideas of what to do? > >I thought maybe one possibility is to set a cookie if there is a way to >detect that they are web tv, and the cookie (just for web tv browsers) >would be their original IP address. Then we should be able to keep >retrieving that cookie and set the [cart] variable to what we retrieve >instead of ip address. > (I hope webtv supports cookies!! anyone know??) > > >?? o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: WebTV, IPAddress, Cookies, IDEAS?? (Dave MacLeay 1998)
  2. Re: WebTV, IPAddress, Cookies, IDEAS?? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  3. WebTV, IPAddress, Cookies, IDEAS?? (Scott Szretter 1998)
...if your site requires users to maintain a static IP address during their sessions, please contact WebTV Customer Service at 1-800-GO-WEBTV. (http://developer.webtv.net/articles/proxy/proxies.htm)Hope this helps.-Dave At 4:54 PM 11/11/98, Scott Szretter wrote: >We found that WebTV uses dynamic IP addresses that seem to change at some >point during using web catalog. > >Some of our clients carts use IP address for the [cart] variable as >instructed by Pacific tech support because we have add buttons on a >different server than the web catalog server, and thus use an addlineitem >command and pass in ip address. > >So as you can see, this is a problem - items get added to one ip address, >and when they check out, the address changes, and they no longer have any >items because the look like a different user!! > >Any ideas of what to do? > >I thought maybe one possibility is to set a cookie if there is a way to >detect that they are web tv, and the cookie (just for web tv browsers) >would be their original IP address. Then we should be able to keep >retrieving that cookie and set the [cart] variable to what we retrieve >instead of ip address. > (I hope webtv supports cookies!! anyone know??) > > >?? o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+ Dave MacLeay

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