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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Ads dont connect
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:21:11 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

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>> Would it be possible for you to use session ids thus avoiding
>> the whole issue of cookies?
>
> The problem is that we have static mirrors. The ads needs to rotate 
> dynamically though, so (I presume) ads.postgresql.org sends an image and 
> a cookie. When someone clicks on the link, it uses the cookie to know 
> which image they clicked on. So, sessions would not help. There are some 
> more advanced tricks that could work (e.g. AJAX) but probably overkill. 
> Although ads.postgresql.org could in theory also track the IPs that they 
> send the image too and try and match that way if the cookie was not 
> found. That should fix it 99% of the time, I would think.

Except then it has to save the IPs for every hit to every page *in case* 
someone happens to click through ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: [email protected]           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664



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