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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Ads dont connect
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:58:11 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)

> >> 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 ...
>   
> But aren't they already saved in the apache logs? It would be 
> expensive to parse them, true, but this would be a rare case 
> for those who are not accepting cookies. Or at the very 
> least, what if the non-mirror site (e.g. www.postgresql.org) 
> used a slightly different system that did not rely on the 
> cookie/image scheme?

Can't talk about the ads.pg server, but al the static servers have
logging turned off to handle the performance requirements.

And what do you mean with the "non-mirror site www.postgresql.org"?
www.postgresql.org is the mirrored site ;-)

//Magnus

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