> They asked if cookies could
> be used to determine if a site visitor was a first time visitor or if they
> had been to the site before. I know this is possible (right?) assuming that
> the site visitor has a relatively recent version of Netscape or MSIE, _and_
> that they do not have cookies turned off in the browser.
Yes, it can be done.
> However, I also believe that one must have a high level of access to the
> web server to set this up. That is, the 'typical' web hosting account will
> not allow you access to the server to set up this cookie implementation. Is
> that correct?
No. You don't need special access. Just put some script on your page. Here
is an example. This code makes the browser giggle the first time someone
loads the page in a session:
if (document.cookie == '')
{
document.write('<embed src="giggle.wav" align="right" border="0"
hspace="0" width="0" height="0" autostart="true">');
document.cookie='giggled'
}
You would have to modify it to keep the cookie alive after the session,
but that's about it.
> Apologies for my lack of knowledge about server access.
Don't worry - we'll all paddle you at the first WC list party. :-)
Kieran
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