Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:21:11 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ads dont connect
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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?
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> 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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