Hi,
>Are they accessing the site and then immediately emailing others the
>link?
No, a marketing person copied a URL from a page on the site and emailed it
to 10,000+ customers.
>I would think if you tried to use a link where the user reference
>was more than X minutes old, that particular user reference would have
>expired.
Hard to believe, but there has been enough consistent traffic that the
session hasn't expired for 3+ weeks. Enough different users are accessing
the site throughout the day to keep the session active. BTW, the session
timeout it set to 30 minutes.
>In other words, you shouldn't be able to use that link
>indefinitely. How do you know if a particular user reference is valid?
We accept any user reference.
> IMHO, if they don't have session cookies turned on, they aren't living
>in this decade.
That's my feeling too, but not our customers. :-(
>Passing user references like this is a maintenance nightmare.
Not really. We've been careful to add them to all URLs as we go, so it
hasn't been a problem.
Eric
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