[thelist] ASP: Shopping Cart Theory

[Chris Blessing]

Ken-

You can always use the IIS session ID coupled with a db table which could
act just as the cookie would.  I chose to use cookies since it was not a
requirement that the cart work for cookie-less folks, but for you this may
be the answer.

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> His example isn't good, but he's trying to make the point that
> with cookies
> disabled, you couldn't use <%= session("Message") %> on any other page and
> still have it generate "hello, world!"
>
> With cookies disabled, a session variable still works, BUT only
> on the page
> that created the session variable.
>
> Which, unfortunately, brings me back to square one... every shopping cart
> solution uses cookies so far. Is there any other way?
>
> I'm not against cookies, but some of my users might be...
>
> -ken