an interesting challenge

[Derek]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
> 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. :(
> 
> That was my last resort -- option #9!
> 
> 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?
> 
> In this project, I do need to match incoming users to referrers.
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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