Re: WebTV problems with WebCatalog??

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 20912
interpreted = N
texte = >>One key note is that he is using [ipaddress] instead of the [cart] tag for >>cart=. >> >>Maybe there is a problem with WebTV and ipaddress changing? > >WebTV may be using dynamic IPs, which would of course screw up any schemes >that don't use [cart] properly. Please use [cart]. We spent months >designing, testing, verifying, and debating the best way to track this kind >of information (cookies, IPs, passwords, etc), and [cart] works with all >browsers and in all cases. Lowest-common-denominator is sometimes the best >solution. If there was a way to use [cart], we would -- we were told to use [ipaddress], because some of the people we are hosting have add item buttons on web server machines that are different machines than the one web catalog is running on, so we use a 'addlineitem' context and use ipaddress.If there is another way that we can use the [cart] tag when there are add buttons on different server machines, I would be open to how... Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: WebTV problems with WebCatalog?? (Scott Szretter 1998)
  2. Re: WebTV problems with WebCatalog?? (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  3. WebTV problems with WebCatalog?? (Scott Szretter 1998)
>>One key note is that he is using [ipaddress] instead of the [cart] tag for >>cart=. >> >>Maybe there is a problem with WebTV and ipaddress changing? > >WebTV may be using dynamic IPs, which would of course screw up any schemes >that don't use [cart] properly. Please use [cart]. We spent months >designing, testing, verifying, and debating the best way to track this kind >of information (cookies, IPs, passwords, etc), and [cart] works with all >browsers and in all cases. Lowest-common-denominator is sometimes the best >solution. If there was a way to use [cart], we would -- we were told to use [ipaddress], because some of the people we are hosting have add item buttons on web server machines that are different machines than the one web catalog is running on, so we use a 'addlineitem' context and use ipaddress.If there is another way that we can use the [cart] tag when there are add buttons on different server machines, I would be open to how... Scott Szretter

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