Re: Ads dont connect

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

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>> Would it be possible for you to use session ids thus avoiding
>> the whole issue of cookies?
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> The problem is that we have static mirrors. The ads needs to rotate
> dynamically though, so (I presume) ads.postgresql.org sends an image and
> a cookie. When someone clicks on the link, it uses the cookie to know
> which image they clicked on. So, sessions would not help. There are some
> more advanced tricks that could work (e.g. AJAX) but probably overkill.
> Although ads.postgresql.org could in theory also track the IPs that they
> send the image too and try and match that way if the cookie was not
> found. That should fix it 99% of the time, I would think.

Except then it has to save the IPs for every hit to every page *in case*
someone happens to click through ...

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