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Re: Is This Linux?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Dec 01, 2002
• 463 views

C.K. writes:
> But what if (as kat suggested) I want to transmit a very 
> long alphanumeric string as a tracking method for a visitor? 
> I don't want to have a button, and there might be more 
> than a few links. Is it possible to use POST in this
> scenario to keep that alphanumeric string ID alive? 
> If I put all my links inside a form, will it then POST 
> whatever link is clicked?

As far as I know, you can't use POST in that way.
It seems to me that if you want to send back a page to the 
user containing customized links with long encoded strings, 
you would have to use the GET method, so you could 
make the string part of the URL that he clicks, e.g.
http://www.lester.com/cgi-bin/myprog.exu?userid=AX45RT0087654

When faced with this tracking problem, I thought briefly
about encoded strings and such, then I opted for cookies.
It seems easier. 

There's probably a lot of discussion about this
issue on the Web somewhere. I don't see that much
privacy difference between encoded strings and
cookies that expire when the browser is closed.
I wonder what percentage of users block all cookies,
even the temporary session-limited ones? I don't think Internet
Explorer blocks temporary cookies as a default.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com