Yep...my bad....never really looked at what search engines pass when entering keywords (I build apps...not market them)....figured it would be a form post and therefore no URL string to pick apart....Mondays!! ;-)
Anyhoo...yep everyone is right....I sure wouldn't rely on HTTP_REFERER Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:38 AM Subject: RE: Can this be done? > Well how do the stats packages come up with "the 10 most common search > keywords used to find your pages" then? There must be some variable passed > that appears in the logs somewhere. No? > > If that goes in the logs somewhere, it can be used, I'd have thought. > > But certainly I'd be very cautious about using any system that depends > heavily on browser information - http_referer or suchlike, because many > users block that info by way of their firewalls or because they are behind a > router. You can have hundreds of people in a building using only a few ip > addresses and that can skew all kinds of systems. > > I'm just saying don't build any application that REQUIRES info back from the > browser in order to function, unless you're ready to deal with the user > calls "I CAN'T GET INTO YOUR SITE! WHAT DO I DO!? YOU CALL YOURSELF A > CUSTOMER ORIENTED ORGANISATION?? I'M GOING TO RESPORT YOU TO THE CONSUMERS > ASSOCIATION. NO WAIT .. YOU *ARE* THE CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION! REPORT > YOURSELVES THEN." > > Trust me, I've been there, heard all the jokes. > > > > Cheers, > Michael Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:16 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Can this be done? > > > Hmmmm....that would seem to imply that this competitor can read the browser > history (and even what was typed)....and that's not possible AFAIK because > it would be a HUGE security/privacy hole. > > my 2 cents on a Monday morning ;-) > > Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. > VP & Director of E-Commerce Development > Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. > t. 250.920.8830 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Macromedia Associate Partner > www.macromedia.com > --------------------------------------------------------- > Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group > Founder & Director > www.cfug-vancouverisland.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Che Vilnonis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:08 AM > 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 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
