* Ekki Plicht (DF4OR) <e...@plicht.de> [2010-10-02 00:15]: > How would you identify a returning customer (returning within > a few seconds to a few minutes in one browser session)? Browser > fingerprinting in an auto action?
For personalisation or analytics? For personalisation you pretty much have to use a cookie. That has nothing to do with a session though. For analytics I would not do this inside the app at all. You can use referrers to stitch a trail of requests into a click stream. If you tack a short random sequence of characters onto all your links as an ignored request parameters, and you follow the trail backward, you will get near-perfect accuracy for click streams even for visitors with cookies off, as long as they send referers. (Many more people block cookies than referers. You can use both methods of course, possibly using detection to select one.) Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/