Re: Too Advanced? Re: Cookies & Hidden Image

Hi Nicole, You can not retrieve information stored in a cookie which set by one domain from some other domain. Try passing all the information you want with the image SRC tag. regards Viraj Nicole wrote: > > OK. Thanks. > > I have the hidden image code: > > <img > src=http://thetrackingurl/?param1=val1&param2=val2&etc... > height=0 > width=0 border=0> > > This hidden image code is placed on the ThankYou page that people see after > they have bought something. What it does is load a script on the tracking > site to let the owner know a sale was made. > > The tracking site is different from the site that the product is sold on. > > A cookie was placed on the client's (buyer) side to store where that client > originated from. So when the hidden image is called, the tracking script is > called and tries to access this cookie to retrieve where the buyer came > from. > > But the script just gets a blank cookie when accessed this way(via hidden > image); However, if the script was accessed directly, or the thankyou page > resided on the same domain as the tracking script (which created the cookie > to begin with), the cookie has the value that it was set with. > > Does this make sense? Thanks for any input. PHP's docs on sessions didn't > seem to have anything relating to this situation; so I'm stuck. > > Nicole > > "Chris Shiflett" <shiflett@php.net> wrote in message > news:20030903213425.49254.qmail@web14301.mail.yahoo.com... > > --- Nicole <430ntr3k@aeontrek.com> wrote: > > > Is this question too advanced for this newsgroup? > > > > Somehow I doubt it. But, that's a nice tactic for grabbing some attention. > :-) > > > > Show us some sample code of a very small test case. I can't really follow > your > > description of what you are trying to do. > > > > Chris > > > > ===== > > Become a better Web developer with the HTTP Developer's Handbook > > http://httphandbook.org/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php