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All I want is a simple cookie

that WebTrends can read!!!

mnw

7:47 pm on Oct 10, 2000 (gmt 0)

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I need to set a cookie to track new vs returning visitors. I don't want to get the visitors name, print anything on the screen (This is your nn visit) or anything very complicated. Every JS that I have found tries to get "cute". This also needs to be tracked by WebTrends which maybe another problem, but one I can probably deal with WebTrends tech support (but if someone here can solve both of my problems without talking to a tech support, I'd be forever thankfull). Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks

rcjordan

7:57 pm on Oct 10, 2000 (gmt 0)

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Play with this, it might be gutted or modified to do what you want. This one rotates a banner shown in an iframe, that's about all I remember.

<HTML>

<HEAD>
<TITLE>
cookie
</TITLE>

// ### This function stops stray error messages ###

function stoperror(){
return true
}

window.onerror=stoperror

// ### *IF* the browser is IFRAMES capable, we can refresh ###
// ### JUST the IFRAME if the visitor leaves the page and ###
// ### later returns to it in the same session. ###

function checkIFRAMEcapable() {
if (navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") {
doCookieReload();
}
}

// -->
</script>

</HEAD>
<BODY
onLoad="checkIFRAMEcapable();"
BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
TEXT="#000000"
LINK="#800080">
<BASE TARGET="_top">

banner SSI call here.

</TD>
</TR></TABLE>

</CENTER>
<BR><BR><BR>

<FORM NAME="cookiesamp">
<INPUT NAME="cookienumbr" SIZE=1>
</FORM>

</BODY>
</HTML>

added:
After re-reading the Webtrends part of your request, I doubt this will work. But I'll leave it up anyway.

DaveAtIFG

7:29 am on Oct 11, 2000 (gmt 0)

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mnw - This site [search.internet.com] is likely to have something you can use.

Brett_Tabke

1:54 pm on Oct 11, 2000 (gmt 0)

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MNW, what language did you want it in?

mnw

1:57 pm on Oct 11, 2000 (gmt 0)

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Don't care. It can be either JS or CGI.

Brett_Tabke

9:01 am on Oct 12, 2000 (gmt 0)

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The actual cookie code is easy from a cgi. The trick will be getting it into something Webtrends can handle.

Do I understand that you just want to build a separate standard web server log file and then run Webtrends over it? (You'd do the log file managment)

Or is there some other format specific to Webtrends for cookies that you want?

mnw

10:12 am on Oct 21, 2000 (gmt 0)

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Sorry Brett, I missed this post entirely. I would like to have it included in the standard Apache log file I download from the host. We are using WebTrends v6.0a. WebTrends can read the cookie (as I understand their documentation) if you give them the cookie ID string