Re: Unverifiable Transactions / Cookie draft
M. Hedlund (hedlund@best.com)
Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:34:16 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Dwight Merriman wrote:
> Designers of web sites (at least the large percentage who will advertise on
> the web) will have to take into account that cookie assignments on their
> home page may fail a large percentage of the time. If they wish to measure
> number of unique visitors to their site, they will get a highly inaccurate
> reading since often multiple cookies will be assignied to a single user
> before one "sticks".
This is reportedly already the case to due to faulty proxies. I believe
Hotwired keeps an extensive database of which proxies fail to properly
pass-through cookie assignments as a result.
My point is simply that other system faults already require the complexity
you mention.
M. Hedlund <hedlund@best.com>