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**yuribar** · 12-26-2005, 04:11 PM

I have been trying to resolve issue with setting cookies for 3 days and haven’t figured out this problem yet. Please help if you see any solution.

Here is the issue:

Domain1.com has file1.asp and file2.asp

File1.asp:
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<html>
<body>
.
.
.
</body>
<img src=”http://www.Domain2.com/stats/statistics.asp">
</html>
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File2.asp:
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<html>
<body>
.
.
.
</body>
<img src=”http://www.Domain2.com/stats/statistics.asp">
</html>

Domain2.com has stats/statistics.asp

statistics.asp:
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<%
.
.
.
VisitorID = 1000000
Accounted = “test”

if Request.Cookies(accountID & "_VisitorID")<>"" then
VisitorID = Request.Cookies(accountID & "_VisitorID")
else
set rs=conn.execute("SELECT MAX(VisitorID) as mVisitorID FROM tb_loger")
if rs("mVisitorID")<>"" then
VisitorID = rs("mVisitorID")+1
end if
end if

‘tt=DateAdd("m", 24, Now())
tt = Date() + 300
Response.Cookies(accountID & "_VisitorID") = VisitorID
Response.Cookies(accountID & "_VisitorID").Expires = tt

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The idea is to keep track of visitor ID while visitor goes from file1 to file2
on Domain1.com by setting cookies by Domain2.com

This works fine on Mazilla Firefox but not with IE 6.0
It seems like the cookie expires each time before it goes to the next page (from file1.asp to file2.asp) . The cookie loos the value and new VisitorID is being generated.

Any help is appreciated. Other approaches is fine but it has to be different domains (statistics.asp and file1,file2)

I'm desperate, please help

**chrishirst** · 12-26-2005, 06:05 PM

cookies can't be used across domains so each "hit" on domain2 is unique or it should be.

Simple answer would be to pass the session ID from domain1 to domain 2 in the image call.
.../statistics.asp?v_ID=<%=session.sessionid%>

the "GET" the id from the request collection object.

**yuribar** · 12-26-2005, 06:17 PM

Actually I'm not intend to use cookies across domains, however there is way to use cookies across domain.

I'm using cookies only within domain2.com but file that does it called from domain1.com either from the file1.asp or file2.asp. As I mentioned it work on firefox browser but not on IE. So I'm messing something or there is other way to accomplish this.

**chrishirst** · 12-27-2005, 06:10 AM

Sessions are also cookies albeit temporary, so you are trying to maintain state across domains.
maybe FF is keeping the session temporary cookie open, because they will be retained on the server for 20 mins unless explicitly cleared, Or maybe IE is treating each request for an image from another domain as a seperate HTTP request.

If they are all .asp pages, why not use a XMLHTTP object to call a page on domain2, or include the domain2 stats page into the page you want to track. Either way you should be able to use the sessionID from D1 to track the traffic.