Maintaining Session State

What to do with cookies disabled users

[FMG_Jeff]

I have read much about these two solutions for maintaining session state without cookies.

Appending a UID in the URL
or
Hidden form fields

Presently we do have the UID in the URL.

www.mysite.com/shopping.asp?UID=2003022615280300&SKW=KWBEADS

We are striving to remove the UID from the URL because of search engine concerns. Other discussions here mention that spiders are allergic to ID or UID strings. In addition, if our site is fully indexed as is, a UID will be present in the indexed link. This is problematic because many people would then share the same UID.

A hidden form field seems to be the solution, but we do not have a form on the page that the visitor is obliged to submit.

The question I have is this, is there any way to auto submit a form, with the UID as a hidden filed, that will pass to any subsequent page?

Are there any solutions that are in use that we may not have considered yet?

[txbakers]

Since you are using asp, you might consider using a database for a way to maintain state. It's a nuisance for sure, but if you can't have cookies then you need someway to maintain state and database will store information......