Shopping carts and reloading pages

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11781
interpreted = N
texte = >> >>3- Pray that your visitor does not reload the page he/she came in on ... >>because that's the ONLY page that will reload *without* using the original >>cart value ... > >Yes, although it sounds like you're saying that people are coming into >your shopping site into any old random URL, instead of thru the 'front >door' so to speak. If you're concerned about people hitting just any old >URL on your site, then you should consider using [ipaddress] or cookies >(not available yet in WC2) as the shopping cart id.Not necessarily, that's not how I think that comment was intended.Folks may be entering the shopping site through the correct front door, but...Even with very good internal site navigation, people often get lost or confused and may use their browser's options for returning to previously visited locations (for example, in Netscape, the items in the Go menu). People often go back to the beginning location if they are unsure about exactly where it is they want to get to.(I've done this many times myself)If I have been following this thread correctly, a user who *does* return to the front door would mess up the shopping cart value. Is this correct?-stephStephanie Wright WebSTAR Tech Support StarNine/Quarterdeck Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Shopping carts and reloading pages (Stephanie Wright 1997)
  2. Re: Shopping carts and reloading pages (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  3. Shopping carts and reloading pages (Stephanie Wright 1997)
>> >>3- Pray that your visitor does not reload the page he/she came in on ... >>because that's the ONLY page that will reload *without* using the original >>cart value ... > >Yes, although it sounds like you're saying that people are coming into >your shopping site into any old random URL, instead of thru the 'front >door' so to speak. If you're concerned about people hitting just any old >URL on your site, then you should consider using [ipaddress] or cookies >(not available yet in WC2) as the shopping cart id.Not necessarily, that's not how I think that comment was intended.Folks may be entering the shopping site through the correct front door, but...Even with very good internal site navigation, people often get lost or confused and may use their browser's options for returning to previously visited locations (for example, in Netscape, the items in the Go menu). People often go back to the beginning location if they are unsure about exactly where it is they want to get to.(I've done this many times myself)If I have been following this thread correctly, a user who *does* return to the front door would mess up the shopping cart value. Is this correct?-stephStephanie Wright WebSTAR Tech Support StarNine/Quarterdeck Stephanie Wright

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