Re: Cookies and customers with cookies turned off
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2005
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 61020
interpreted = N
texte = I use cookies exclusively and have never had a problem or complaint. Anyone with *first-party* *session* cookies turned off is... well... nuts... as that would make many, many sites useless... Also there is no security/privacy concern there so I don't really know why they would be disabled other than ignorance. If you use cookies which span sessions you may encounter some complaints (although I never have). -Chris -----Original Message----- From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com] On Behalf Of devaulw@onebox.com Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:57 AM To: WebDNA Talk Subject: Cookies and customers with cookies turned off Hello, Presently my sites pass the cart in the URL, but I want to be more search engine friendly and to avoid the cart re-use problem that can arise when visitors bookmark cart information. =20 I want to implement a site that uses cookies throughout for tracking visitor behaviour (recently visited pages, account information) except that I'd like to keep the checkout process as is because it requires no cookies. I use forms to pass cart data from the add to cart page, cart review and order submit to allow this. Cart information would be lost for those users who don't have cookies enabled and don't go straight through the purchase process. =20 If you've done something similar, can you tell me what pitfalls there might be and how you may have worked around them? What is the best way to inform visitors that the cart information will be lost if they don't have cookies/complete the purchase straight through? =20 I'd also like to keep carts around longer than a day or so. How long do most people expect a cart to be kept for them? Amazon seems to keep them for ages. =20 Thanks, Bill ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I use cookies exclusively and have never had a problem or complaint. Anyone with *first-party* *session* cookies turned off is... well... nuts... as that would make many, many sites useless... Also there is no security/privacy concern there so I don't really know why they would be disabled other than ignorance. If you use cookies which span sessions you may encounter some complaints (although I never have). -Chris -----Original Message----- From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com] On Behalf Of devaulw@onebox.com Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 8:57 AM To: WebDNA Talk Subject: Cookies and customers with cookies turned off Hello, Presently my sites pass the cart in the URL, but I want to be more search engine friendly and to avoid the cart re-use problem that can arise when visitors bookmark cart information. =20 I want to implement a site that uses cookies throughout for tracking visitor behaviour (recently visited pages, account information) except that I'd like to keep the checkout process as is because it requires no cookies. I use forms to pass cart data from the add to cart page, cart review and order submit to allow this. Cart information would be lost for those users who don't have cookies enabled and don't go straight through the purchase process. =20 If you've done something similar, can you tell me what pitfalls there might be and how you may have worked around them? What is the best way to inform visitors that the cart information will be lost if they don't have cookies/complete the purchase straight through? =20 I'd also like to keep carts around longer than a day or so. How long do most people expect a cart to be kept for them? Amazon seems to keep them for ages. =20 Thanks, Bill ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
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