Cookie Magic

mdaoust

Hey all...first time poster here.

Got an interesting problem for all of you. I am trying to set a cookie on a third party website. For example, I own mysite.com which is a tracking service for advertisers. When a user clicks on one of my advertiser's links, it goes through mysite.com where I would like to set a cookie. If the end user purchases something off of the advertiser's website, it shows up in a report on mysite.com.

The problem I am having is setting the cookie on the advertiser's website. I have tried the following:

setcookie("mycookie",$trackThisSet,time()+2592000,"/",'.advertiserwebsite.com,0);

Yet this does not set...any ideas?

Herk

setcookie("mycookie",$trackThisSet,time()+2592000,"/",'.advertiserwebsite.com,0);

I believe this should be :

setcookie("mycookie",$trackThisSet,time()+2592000,"/",'.advertiserwebsite.com',0);

but maybe missing that single quote was just a typo.

Herk

mdaoust

Herk,

Thanks for the reply...I actually just entered a typo, that's all.

I think I figured out where the problem is...maybe someone can verify that this is the issue?

After doing some research, it appears that most modern browsers block third party cookies that do not use P3P. The question here is this...will a P3P compact policy get me around this issue?

If anyone knows offhand, that would be great...I just don't want to spend a day researching P3P only to find I'm barking up the wrong tree. :p

Thanks again for your help!