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Re: Re: HTTP REFERER not set in Internet Explorer

Subject: Re: Re: HTTP REFERER not set in Internet Explorer
Date: 18 Nov 2005 17:59:57 -0000

Hi Saqib,

If you want to track repeat customers, use cookies. If you want to track 
referers, use unique urls that contain a code that maps to refers in your data 
base.

One twist to cookies that I use is to store a public key of the user. They key 
is used to encode their password and send a digest. In this way, passwords are 
never sent (even over an SSL connection). I also never store passwords (only 
digests). 

If no cookie is available, I record the fact and encode the password using a 
general public key. I can then challenge the user.

Anyone with a bit of smarts can encrypt a password (just as they could randomly 
guess at a password), but they cannot steal passwords from the server (none 
there), or sniff using SSL sniff tools.

Mike

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