[thelist] linking to shopping cart item

DESCHAMPS Stéphane DvSI/SICoR stephane.deschamps at francetelecom.com
Wed Oct 23 09:35:00 CDT 2002


> -----Message d'origine-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]De la part de Joel Canfield
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> I need to create links from my client's site to various
> vendor sites, but
> directly to each product. When the vendor site requires a
> sessionid for the
> shopping cart, is there a universal solution to allow a link
> directly to an
> item's page without reusing the session id in the link? I
> assume that would
> send every user to the same shopping cart until it timed out,
> at which point
> the link should break.

Hi Joel,

Can't you create the sessionid if it's missing?

Then you'd point directly towards a specific product and you'd check
server-side if the sessionid is created --if not, create one seamlessly in
order not to rebuke visitors.

HTH
s t e f
http://www.nota-bene.org/




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