Re: Cookie ... Less Navigation

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2001


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 39109
interpreted = N
texte = Sorry, web client <-> web server communication is sessionless and as such, it is the web clients responsibility for each and every request to remind the server of who the client is (again), cookies are a nice invisible way of doing this, and are pretty reliable. Visible session IDs (carts) are the other way. Conceivably, you could possible hack up something into the user and password fields that the client sends with each request (when filled in and authenticated) but different platforms have different issues with that as well.Based on your post, you are having trouble with links that are ugly (showing cart values being passed around). Perhaps you could write a session ID that makes the carts cuter. A cart value is not limited to the value that it is assigned if empty, you can set a cart value to bob if you want, and it will pass around properly, you just have to come up with a system to detect an empty cart value and a system to use your values to substitute them in at the appropriate times.Well, this email probably didn't help, but look on the bright side, everyone has exactly the same problem, you're part of a group of frustrated web programmers :-)-- Brian B. Burton On 10/5/01 2:27 AM, Terry Nair wrote:> Need to track a visitor on the site. Using cart for every link on the site > is one way. > > Is there any other way besides cookies or is there a way to hide and yet > transfer the cart value from page to page without having it displayed in the > URL. Forms is not the problem .... Hyperlink is and that is what I am > looking for a solution or way to solve. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks all.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Cookie ... Less Navigation (Kenneth Grome 2001)
  2. Re: Cookie ... Less Navigation (Brian B. Burton 2001)
  3. Cookie ... Less Navigation (Terry Nair 2001)
Sorry, web client <-> web server communication is sessionless and as such, it is the web clients responsibility for each and every request to remind the server of who the client is (again), cookies are a nice invisible way of doing this, and are pretty reliable. Visible session IDs (carts) are the other way. Conceivably, you could possible hack up something into the user and password fields that the client sends with each request (when filled in and authenticated) but different platforms have different issues with that as well.Based on your post, you are having trouble with links that are ugly (showing cart values being passed around). Perhaps you could write a session ID that makes the carts cuter. A cart value is not limited to the value that it is assigned if empty, you can set a cart value to bob if you want, and it will pass around properly, you just have to come up with a system to detect an empty cart value and a system to use your values to substitute them in at the appropriate times.Well, this email probably didn't help, but look on the bright side, everyone has exactly the same problem, you're part of a group of frustrated web programmers :-)-- Brian B. Burton On 10/5/01 2:27 AM, Terry Nair wrote:> Need to track a visitor on the site. Using cart for every link on the site > is one way. > > Is there any other way besides cookies or is there a way to hide and yet > transfer the cart value from page to page without having it displayed in the > URL. Forms is not the problem .... Hyperlink is and that is what I am > looking for a solution or way to solve. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks all.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Brian B. Burton

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