Che, I'm guessing that the competitor did a poor job (or a very good job - ha) of explaining how he could use the HTTP_Referer variable to figure out how a user is searching and finding the site. If not, then I'd say he's violating security on the client side somehow. I would also note to your potential client that such techniques are not terribly reliable accross all ranges of browsers.
-Mark -----Original Message----- From: Che Vilnonis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 11:08 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Can this be done? Hello all.. I'm bidding on a job and the client told me something that a competitor does that seems pretty amazing. He said that this competitor can dynamically build certain sections of a homepage based on the search term that was used on the previous page of a search engine site, no matter which one is used. I know you can look at the CGI.HTTP_REFERER value for some search engines, but does anyone know how to do this for all sites. Is there a tool, CFC or UDF that could do this for me? Is there an easy way to parse the info out? Che Vilnonis Application Developer Advertising Systems Incorporated 8470C Remington Avenue Pennsauken, NJ 08110 p: 856.488.2211 f: 856.488.1990 www.asitv.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com
