- From: M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:34:16 -0800 (PST)
- To: Dwight Merriman <dmerriman@doubleclick.net>
- Cc: http <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>, dmk@allegra.att.com, montulli@netscape.com, yarong@microsoft.com
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Dwight Merriman wrote: > Designers of web sites (at least the large percentage who will advertise on > the web) will have to take into account that cookie assignments on their > home page may fail a large percentage of the time. If they wish to measure > number of unique visitors to their site, they will get a highly inaccurate > reading since often multiple cookies will be assignied to a single user > before one "sticks". This is reportedly already the case to due to faulty proxies. I believe Hotwired keeps an extensive database of which proxies fail to properly pass-through cookie assignments as a result. My point is simply that other system faults already require the complexity you mention. M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>
Received on Monday, 17 March 1997 10:23:07 UTC