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May 03, 2004
URL-based arguments
URL-based arguments: Barnes & Noble pays court fines for keeping user-identification info in URLs... there were a couple of instances where people posted links to the online book catalog and didn't realize they were offering access to their personal account at the same time! (Request: If you're ever linking to a book or CD in an online publication, then linking to the creator's site, rather than to Amazon or some other sales sites, could help bring source info up a little higher in search engine rankings. But because this relies on what other people do, too, it's probably just a well-intentioned, yet vague, gesture. ;-) (To reduce the number of catalog results when searching for information on an author or musician, try adding the terms "-order -buy -price" to a search... isn't foolproof, but can help winnow out many of the sellers.) (And oh yeah, storing user IDs, I hope they've fixed that .ASP handling on the backend by now...!)
Posted by John Dowdell at May 3, 2004 01:25 PM
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Sometimes i see that somekind of userid or session id is passed via URL arguments but i think it's not fashionable. Much more convinient is to use cookie-based sessions.
Posted by: Alessandro at March 15, 2007 05:07 AM