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Re: problem using shopping cart with AOL users

To: Jeremy Johnson <jjohnson@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: problem using shopping cart with AOL users
Cc: Wayne <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: "Steve Thurber" <thurber@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 15:44:33 -0400
The better B2C internet commerce applications only use cookies as you
describe -- to identify the user/session so that the full session context
can be restored from a database.  But the drawback is that the site won't
work for a user who has disabled cookie use in the browser.  Other common
approaches are stashing data on the page or in the address -- both of
which are more exposed.

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---- Jeremy Johnson <jjohnson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 12:04 PM 4/27/00 -0700, Wayne wrote:
> >Do you have document that you mentioned that we can reference?
> Sure. http://www.linux-vs.org/persistence.html
> 
> 
> >Most shopping cart we tried using cookie to keep the shopping information.
> >Do you have any suggestion that  a shopping cart not using cookie
> at all?
> Well, a cookie is good for stashing some information, but I don't think
> 
> cookies should be used for more than recognizing you when you return
> to a 
> site.... everything else about a user should be stashed in a central
> 
> storage area, IE database, NFS mount, etc....
> 
> If you REALLY want to know what I would do, I would run roxen as the
> 
> webserver (www.roxen.com). It has a really simplistic database interface,
> 
> could make setting/getting/editing the database shopping cart quite
> easy...
> 
> 
> >Thanks Jeremy!
> No Problem ;)
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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