I've got a stats package (DeepMetrix LiveStats 6.2) that's capable of
tracking visitors based on cookies recorded in the web logs, rather than by
IP address. Can I accomplish this using CF client management and cookies?
I turned on cookie logging in IIS and created a simple application.cfm
consisting of:
<cfsilent>
<cfapplication name="mydomain.com"
clientmanagement="yes"
clientstorage="cookie"
setclientcookies="yes">
</cfsilent>
Some of the cookie fields in the just show CFTOKEN & CFID, but most look
like:
CFTOKEN=44050900;+CFID=20177;+CFGLOBALS=HITCOUNT%3D1%23LASTVISIT%3D%7Bts+%27
2002%2D07%2D24+15%3A38%3A45%27%7D%23TIMECREATED%3D%7Bts+%272002%2D07%2D24+15
%3A38%3A45%27%7D%23
That's CF recording CFGLOBALS, HITCOUNT, LASTVISIT, TIMECREATED, isn't it?
I'm pretty sure that the log analyzer will compare the entire string and see
this as a new visitor, since LASTVISIT is certain to change.
Any thoughts on what I need to do to set cookies usable by a stats package
for visitor tracking?
Jim
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