Windows 2003 Web Edition IIS 6.0, R:Tango 5, Oterro 3.0 I would like to suggest that visitors login to a site when they first enter it. Presently I check to see if they have a user scoped userid. If they don't I set it to the session cookie userreference. So I was thinking that if they didn't have a user id, I would redirect to a page that would list benefits of signing in and provide login input fields.
I also want to create a persistent cookie to place on their computer that would contain an affiliate code if the visitor was referred to the site by an affiliate. So I could check to see if they have this cookie first. If they have a cookie, it would be nice to log them in as well as read their affiliate code. But I don't know how to transmit encrypted account and password info in the form of a cookie first to their computer and then at a later date (subsequent visits) back to my site. Any comments? I also have a challenge when a search engine spider hits the site. I don't want to redirect the spider to a "login suggestion" page. Any suggestions on how to determine if the visitor is a spider? Maybe use <@CGIPARAM>. I noticed when looking at my IIS logs, that there are entries like the following: 66.196.93.29 HTTP/1.0 YahooSeeker/1.1+(compatible;+Mozilla+4.0;+MSIE+5.5;+http://help.yahoo.com/he lp/us/shop/merchant/) 64.68.82.55 HTTP/1.0 Googlebot/2.1+(+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) 66.196.65.40 HTTP/1.0 Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Yahoo!+Slurp;+http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch /slurp) Is this accessible by Witango? Is it consistent? Is it useful? Thanks for any ideas. Steve Fogelson Internet Commerce Solutions ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
