Email conversation
| From | Anonymous |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | If not cookies what alternative can i use? |
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| Date | 18 March 2006 19:58 |
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Hi Mark,
thanks for the site, very helpful. I am developing some sites for my
business, but i need a tracking system on my site. I read what you wrote
about cookies and you are right. Is there an alternative? If not cookies
what should I use.
Hope to hear from you.
My regards,
Anonymous
| From | Me |
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| To | Anonymous |
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| Subject | Re: If not cookies what alternative can i use? |
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| Date | 22 March 2006 08:10 |
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Anonymous,
> I read what you
> wrote about cookies and you are right. Is there an alternative? If
> not cookies what should I use.
The usual thing used is session IDs, encoded into the URL:
http://www.example.com/foo?sesID=4538866DFGGW4567DFGGSH
This means dynamically generating pages using a server-side language like
PHP. If this is not possible, you may have to resort to cookies. Just make
you use them sparingly, and let your users know what they will be used for,
and that you will respect their privacy, etc.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/