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 duringtheir sessions, please contact WebTV Customer Service at 1-800-GO-WEBTV.(http://developer.webtv.net/articles/proxy/proxies.htm)Hope this helps.-DaveAt 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 --+
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...if your site requires users to maintain a static IP address duringtheir sessions, please contact WebTV Customer Service at 1-800-GO-WEBTV.(http://developer.webtv.net/articles/proxy/proxies.htm)Hope this helps.-DaveAt 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 --+
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