- From: Ryan Johnson <ryan@kiwi3.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:39:17 -0700
I might be misguided, but I believe that PHP has "transparent" session tracking using only URLs. I have no idea how it hides it from the browser, but from my experience it seems to work pretty damn well, and without cookies... I believe that would be the job of the web server though, and not the markup language. Can anyone shed a little more light on this? - Ryan On Jul 2, 2004, at 9:26 AM, Joshua Bauguss wrote: > Hi. I'm an e-commerce developer for a couple web sites. We have long > been bugged about the whole issue with session ids. It seems that too > many of our visitors are simply turning things like Javascript and > Cookies off. Javascript we can live without. Cookies is another > issue. So we developed the system to not rely on cookies. Now > wherever you go on our site, a session id follows you via the url. > While this seems to work, it just isn't pretty. I've checked out > Amazon and a few others and they use the same technique. > > So I got to thinking, what if it was the browser's job to provide a > web site with a valid session id. One that the site's server had no > control over. The browser could generate a unique id based on the url > and a keyphrase that gets setup when the browser is installed. Then > site developers could use it if they needed. What I think is nice > about this is that the browser would provide a unique id for Amazon, > google, etc. The cookie problem goes away (where sites track you from > site to site) and ugly urls become a thing of the past. The browser > could also do further checks as in only providing the url it is > visiting with a session id and not that damn tracking graphic > installed on some sites from doubleclick or whatever is the current > "bad guy". (you know, the reason people stopped trusting cookies to > begin with) > > I really think this is a great idea and could work. I also think it > would be really easy for a browser to implement. What do you think? > Josh Bauguss > > >
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