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Re: Previous customer info showing
> The problem:
> A certain un-named search type engine has apparently spidered
> his site and is now driving lots of traffic there (again good)!
> BUT, the url's they are using to point to products in the shop
> are including the query string (which has the cart ID) so
> when a visitor, via these links, comes to the store they see
> the previous visitors name,address, etc (NOT CC of course)
>
> So, what is the best way to combat this problem?
>
> I have already asked the search engine to remove all references
> to the query string (what ever good that may do) and I have set
> the session expire to 2 hours with a crontab to also expire
> every 2 hours for his catalog. His users do not "sign in" so
> I don't need to keep their data anyway.
>
> I had read that I could erase the info on the final page of the
> checkout process but what is the last step? (receipt.html or
> report)
Receipt is the last page... put an init session in there and it'll
blow everything away, I believe.
One way to this might be to check the referer and turn off the session
info in the query string if the referer is the web spider. I'm not sure
how to turn off the session info in the url... but I know it's possible.
You might want to just require cookies for your site and turn it off
permanently... but that's up to you.
Definately the easiest way to fix it.
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Anthony Ball ant@maine.com
MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039
tel:1.207.657.5078 fax:1.207.657.5048 http://www.maine.com/
