cookies and [returnraw]
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numero = 14075
interpreted = N
texte = I'm working on incorporating cookies into the website. Is there documentation of [returnraw] available? From what I can gather from the list archieves, [returnraw] lets you write an HTTP header (perhaps including a cookie?). But it doesn't answer the other half of the equation -- how to read a cookie.What I need to do is to store the cookie value in a webDNA database. Would the [thisurl] command capture a cookie? I could then write it into a file. There's cookie generating cgi's available to write and retrieve cookies. The AppleEvents that pass the cookie parameters to the cookie cgi records the cookies in the weblog. Worst case, I could use WebCatalog to write the first cookie, use the cgi for followup cookies and write a routine to pull the cookies out of the web log. I can probably catch the cookies with Frontier. But that is a heck of alot more work with many potential potholes. Olin also once wrote about using Java/ASP to retrieve header information. Is this available on Macs and an easier approach?Any chance WebCatalog can capture the cookies being passed in the HTTP header? All I want is to be able to track returning customers (browsing customers as well as purchasing customers) without any barriers to entry such as user names and passwords. This type of marketing analysis is crucial to commericially competitive sites and WebCatalog is a commerce package.ThanksSandy
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I'm working on incorporating cookies into the website. Is there documentation of
[returnraw] available? From what I can gather from the list archieves,
[returnraw] lets you write an HTTP header (perhaps including a cookie?). But it doesn't answer the other half of the equation -- how to read a cookie.What I need to do is to store the cookie value in a webDNA database. Would the
[thisurl] command capture a cookie? I could then write it into a file. There's cookie generating cgi's available to write and retrieve cookies. The AppleEvents that pass the cookie parameters to the cookie cgi records the cookies in the weblog. Worst case, I could use WebCatalog to write the first cookie, use the cgi for followup cookies and write a routine to pull the cookies out of the web log. I can probably catch the cookies with Frontier. But that is a heck of alot more work with many potential potholes. Olin also once wrote about using Java/ASP to retrieve header information. Is this available on Macs and an easier approach?Any chance WebCatalog can capture the cookies being passed in the HTTP header? All I want is to be able to track returning customers (browsing customers as well as purchasing customers) without any barriers to entry such as user names and passwords. This type of marketing analysis is crucial to commericially competitive sites and WebCatalog is a commerce package.ThanksSandy
Sandra L. Pitner <76501.3521@compuserve.com>
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