[ic] AOL losing session data.

[Dan Browning]

At 05:48 PM 8/26/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Quoting Dan <ic@concolor.org>:
>
> > Does anyone have an idea of how to keep AOL users from losing session
> > data? I have had quite a few AOL users come in through affiliates and
> > the affiliate has not recieved credit for their order. This is an
> > intermitant problem with some AOL users not having a problem while
> > others do.
> >
> > I am using IC 4.8.5
> >
> > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Dan Sabath
> > concolor web services
>
>Hi Dan,
>
>I think the problem lies in the fact that AOL caches the pages of a site, and
>that is why the users may not be getting proper credit.
>
>Hope this helps.

I would also add that it is a solvable problem, as AOL wont cache unique 
URLs (mv_pc=..., etc.).

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