an interesting challenge

[J. Landman Gay]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

>> It's easy for PHP code in the landing download page to get the 
>> information
>> that "Bob sent them" with a $GET. But how on earth will the Revolution
>> standalone know about Bob?
> 
> One thought: PHP gets the info and sends it to the download server via a 
> POST action to a CGI on the download server. The download server's CGI 
> parses the parameters and writes the info to a file or database. When 
> the standalone launches on a user's machine, it does a "get URL" of the 
> CGI on the download server, which looks up the data and returns it.
> 

I left out something. You need some kind of identifying info so that you 
know who to look up. So unless you require a registration, where they 
enter their name on both the server and into your standalone, this 
method won't work. :(

Do you really need to tie each copy to a specific user? Maybe just 
knowing that Bob referred 10 people and another server referred 40 is 
enough?

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