Re: FN-FORUM ASP Question

date posted 1st February 2002 19:28

Hi Dave,

IIS By default times out after 20 minutes - so if the users are on a page
for longer than that - it'll assume they are a new user when they click on a
link.

A way around this would be to use a cookie on the client PC - although not
always recommended.

HTH,

Rgds,

Carl.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David McEwen" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: "FN-FORUM" [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM ASP Question


> Hello all
>
> To track visitors on a web site, I'm assigning a sequential number to each
> visitor as they arrive and writing it using
>
> If Len(Session("Ticket")) = 0 Then Session("Ticket") = GetTicketNumber()
>
> GetTicketNumber is a function that gets the next number in the sequence.
>
> This appears to work OK most of the time, but sometimes I'm getting users
> who are being assigned a new ticket while already in the site. The reason
I
> know this is that I record the referrer in a database and I'm getting the
> different pages of the site listed as the referrer.
>
> So basically, it would appear that the user is losing the variable, but as
> I'm not utterly familiar with session variables, I was wondering if anyone
> can tell me where I'm going wrong. I've just read in a VBScript book that
> it may be something to do with timeouts but I can't find any more info
about
> that.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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