On 6/22/98, at 2:13 PM, George wrote:
>Edmunds, Keith wrote:
>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Robert L. Willsey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> > Subject: Re: Cookies
>> >
>> > I have my system set NOT to accept cookies! They are to
>> > intrusive and take up
>> > way to much space. I am sure most people have their machines
>> > set this way. I
>> > even change my online newspaper to one that does not use cookies!
>>
>> Whilst the original poster did say that he would be "...tickled pink and
>> highly appreciative for any response" one doubts somehow that his
>> appreciation would extend to someone who informs him that he doesn't use
>> cookies. This is unlikely to help the original poster much. As I suppose
>> this response doesn't either (it was the cookies taking up "way to [sic]
>> much space" that riled me).
>>
>> Keith
>>
>
>Well I hate cookie myself and have them turned off so I could stay with
>my online newspaper , however,
>one of our clients whishes to track people's navigation , so he could see
the
>pattern of users hitting his site and make improvements accordingly.
>BTW , Thansk to all for your help.
> Sincerely
>
I won't get inot the +/- of cookies myself. If you wan't to know about
them, read a good HTML design book or go to netscape's Documentation web
site and learn about what they can and can't do. I personally let them
exists and find peoples attitiued towards them pretty X file-ish. As far
as the request to track peoples usage of your webiste, there are other ways
than using cookies. There are websites that do this for free/small fee and
offer page by page tracking or just a home page. A netsearch will yeild
most of them. I also found many linked on the windows shareware site
www.windows95.com. None are server specific, and almost all require
nothing but a few hidden html tags or maybe a java program to be installed.
You could also use a perl script to write to a local database/file if
your into doing the work yourself. Commercail apps also exist that do
complete web site analysis.
Scott
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