Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder

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2004


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 60547
interpreted = N
texte = Hi John how would I change the site to use session cookies and would it stop the cart being passed in the links? Would be a much better way but is there a huge amount of work doing this Thanks paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Peacock" To: "WebDNA Talk" Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 8:41 PM Subject: Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder > Paul Berman wrote: > > > How would I do this?, what happens if 2 people come to the site with the > > same cart number? > > On every page, you check the cart and see if it has already been used to > check out an item. If it has, you redirect to the current page and > assign a new cart. Make sure that any cart that has been spidered is > already in the orders database. > > If your site design used session cookies to store the cart, you'd never > have this problem with spiders like Google again (since they won't track > the cookies). > > John > > -- > John Peacock > Director of Information Research and Technology > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > 4501 Forbes Boulevard > Suite H > Lanham, MD 20706 > 301-459-3366 x.5010 > fax 301-429-5748 > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( Donovan Brooke 2004)
  2. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( "Paul Berman" 2004)
  3. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( Donovan Brooke 2004)
  4. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( "Paul Berman" 2004)
  5. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( John Peacock 2004)
  6. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( "Paul Berman" 2004)
  7. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( Donovan Brooke 2004)
  8. Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder ( "Paul Berman" 2004)
Hi John how would I change the site to use session cookies and would it stop the cart being passed in the links? Would be a much better way but is there a huge amount of work doing this Thanks paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Peacock" To: "WebDNA Talk" Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 8:41 PM Subject: Re: emptying shopping carts and orders folder > Paul Berman wrote: > > > How would I do this?, what happens if 2 people come to the site with the > > same cart number? > > On every page, you check the cart and see if it has already been used to > check out an item. If it has, you redirect to the current page and > assign a new cart. Make sure that any cart that has been spidered is > already in the orders database. > > If your site design used session cookies to store the cart, you'd never > have this problem with spiders like Google again (since they won't track > the cookies). > > John > > -- > John Peacock > Director of Information Research and Technology > Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group > 4501 Forbes Boulevard > Suite H > Lanham, MD 20706 > 301-459-3366 x.5010 > fax 301-429-5748 > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ "Paul Berman"

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