breps
03-28-2006, 11:30 PM
hi,
I need to write a simple addon to an e-commerce site that tracks a users referral.
As I started writing it, I thought of an easy way to track it plus I expanded it to track every page hit.... It basically just catches the http referral on every page and logs it into a cookie.
I am concerned though that there may be a limit on the cookie size and that this may slow down page browsing as the user navigates the site. I can log it into a database but I didnt want to really go this route as I think it may create more traffic to the db, or should I be doing this instead????
What is the maximum size of a cookie, and what would happen when the limit is reached? And, are there any good solutions out there that already exist to do this? I am writing the code in ASP 3, I am open to suggestions in PHP also as I can understand it and rewrite code into ASP very easily.
Thank you for any suggestions.
I need to write a simple addon to an e-commerce site that tracks a users referral.
As I started writing it, I thought of an easy way to track it plus I expanded it to track every page hit.... It basically just catches the http referral on every page and logs it into a cookie.
I am concerned though that there may be a limit on the cookie size and that this may slow down page browsing as the user navigates the site. I can log it into a database but I didnt want to really go this route as I think it may create more traffic to the db, or should I be doing this instead????
What is the maximum size of a cookie, and what would happen when the limit is reached? And, are there any good solutions out there that already exist to do this? I am writing the code in ASP 3, I am open to suggestions in PHP also as I can understand it and rewrite code into ASP very easily.
Thank you for any suggestions.