Getting cookie software?

[ali]

Can anyone tell me how/where to get software to put a basic cookie on a viewers p.c.? Just to get their pc number, what URL they have come from/are going to?

[MichaelG]

I take it you are not a techie - what do you want to use the cookie for? what SSS technology is your website using (e.g. ASP, .NET, PHP, CF, FLASH or JSP)? Are you happy with just a Javascript Cookie Read/Write function?

Sorry about the questions.

[kyber]

I think you are not after a cookie. You use a cookie to store information on a visitors computer between sessions. This lets you tell if they have visited your site before and to store certain preferences.

The information you are after is from the browser session and not from a reading/writing cookies. Do a google search for "reading referrer url" for example. Your server logs may well have the information you are after and you just need software to read/analyse them or you could use a service to track and report this information for you.

Stuart

[Richard Conyard]

But cookies do everything, Click-Online (BBC News 24), told me so on Sunday.....

Perhaps someone should point out to them that cookies are just bits of text with a max size of 4K :-(

[TWD-Tony]

If you are on professional hosting then you *SHOULD* have web stats software (Urchin, AwStats or similar) these are basically just log viewers that take the raw info from your visitor logs and present them in a more pleasing manner... They can tell you which website your visitor came from (the referrer), their IP address, their geographical location, how long they stayed, which page(s) they views, which page they were on when they left plus lots more...

If you are on FREE hosting (your ISP for example) then you will NOT be able to install this software yourself. :(