Hi Deaning,
well the aff code is mine and the rest is a tester I use (upon checking, I see I did make a mistake in letting them be seen when I posted Trish’s reply, other than that: I dont’ think there were any account #s shown), but that’s not a likely problem anyway.
He’s worked with me before and gets money from me to play so I doubt he’ll be too upset.
that said: as long as the passwords aren’t posted is there really a security issue? If you think there is: I’ll ask him not to use those accounts.
I guess I”ll go ahead and delete them anyway. thanks for the heads up. my mistake.
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Here is what someone has told me about all this who is much smarter than myself.
When I trace the http stream through the linking code with the pipe’s I get this (you can just skip the technobabble if you want, I’ve summed it up near the bottom:
http://www.jackpotcity.com/rfb_sa94__s||aff27237__b=sa94–04:06:11– http://www.jackpotcity.com/rfb_sa94__s
=> `rfb_sa94__s’
Resolving http://www.jackpotcity.com… 66.212.235.213
Connecting to http://www.jackpotcity.com[66.212.235.213]:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response…
1 HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
2 Connection: keep-alive
3 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:14:01 GMT
4 Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
6 Location: http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?trd=1&s
7 Content-Length: 169
8 Content-Type: text/html
9 Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDCQSSRADQ=GNBLJBDCKDIENPEBGIBGEBOI; path=/
10 Cache-control: private
Location: http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?trd=1&s [following]
–04:06:16– http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?trd=1&s
=> `index.asp?trd=1&s’
Connecting to http://www.jackpotcity.com[66.212.235.213]:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response…
1 HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
2 Connection: keep-alive
3 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:14:02 GMT
4 Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
6 Location: http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?VT=285532211&trd=1&s
7 Content-Length: 186
8 Content-Type: text/html
9 Set-Cookie: CV=cv=us&vt=285532211&State=moskva&cont=ru&start=2007%2F01%2F11+06%3A14%3A02+AM; path=/
10 Set-Cookie: FVT=2007%2F01%2F11+06%3A14%3A02+AM; expires=Sat, 07-Jan-2017 22:00:00 GMT; path=/
********** 11 Set-Cookie: LSS=JPCTYPEINTRAFFIC; expires=Sat, 07-Jan-2017 22:00:00 GMT; path=/
12 Set-Cookie: FCVR=1071999795; expires=Sat, 07-Jan-2017 22:00:00 GMT; path=/
13 Cache-control: private
Location: http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?VT=285532211&trd=1&s [following]
–04:06:16– http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?VT=285532211&trd=1&s
=> `index.asp?VT=285532211&trd=1&s’
Connecting to http://www.jackpotcity.com[66.212.235.213]:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response…
1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
2 Connection: keep-alive
3 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 04:14:02 GMT
4 Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
6 Content-Length: 20469
7 Content-Type: text/html
8 Cache-control: privateI know that might not mean much to you, but bare with me… I’ll explain.
Now, here’s the http stream for this linking code:
http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?s=aff27237–04:59:08– http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?s=aff27237
=> `index.asp?s=aff27237′
Resolving http://www.jackpotcity.com… 66.212.235.213
Connecting to http://www.jackpotcity.com[66.212.235.213]:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response…
1 HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
2 Connection: keep-alive
3 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:06:54 GMT
4 Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
6 Location: http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?VT=285532758&s=aff27237
7 Content-Length: 185
8 Content-Type: text/html
9 Set-Cookie: CV=cv=us&vt=285532758&State=moskva&cont=ru&start=2007%2F01%2F11+07%3A06%3A54+AM; path=/
10 Set-Cookie: FVT=2007%2F01%2F11+07%3A06%3A54+AM; expires=Sat, 07-Jan-2017 22:00:00 GMT; path=/
********** 11 Set-Cookie: LSS=aff27237; expires=Sat, 07-Jan-2017 22:00:00 GMT; path=/
12 Set-Cookie: FCVR=1072009553; expires=Sat, 07-Jan-2017 22:00:00 GMT; path=/
13 Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQATRRABS=IIAPOPCCOFGPEADCKJLFEDKP; path=/
14 Cache-control: private
Location: http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?VT=285532758&s=aff27237 [following]
–04:59:09– http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?VT=285532758&s=aff27237
=> `index.asp?VT=285532758&s=aff27237′
Connecting to http://www.jackpotcity.com[66.212.235.213]:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response…
1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
2 Connection: keep-alive
3 Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:06:55 GMT
4 Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
5 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
6 Content-Length: 21352
7 Content-Type: text/html
8 Cache-control: privateOk, now look for the two lines that I’ve prefixed with: **********
I’ve copy and pasted it here for easy reference:http://www.jackpotcity.com/rfb_sa94__s||aff27237__b=sa94
11 Set-Cookie: LSS=JPCTYPEINTRAFFIC; expires=Sat, 07-Jan-2017 22:00:00 GMT; path=/http://www.jackpotcity.com/index.asp?s=aff27237
11 Set-Cookie: LSS=aff27237; expires=Sat, 07-Jan-2017 22:00:00 GMT; path=/I’m sure you can see the first one seems to have tagged your referral as ‘TYPE IN TRAFFIC’…
and the second one has tagged the referral to: aff27237So, that would be pretty concerning to me as I can’t find any place in the http stream for the pipe linking code that associates the referral to your affiliate account.
… on the issue of url encoding and invalid characters. As Ted said, it really should be fine. You can use any character in a URL as long as it can be URL Encoded. The whole point of url encoding something is so that there will NOT be a mistake. If a ‘funny’ character is NOT url encoded that’s typically when the side effects and other mishaps occur. I guess the point I’m trying to make is that I don’t think the tracking is failing only because they’ve used pipe’s in the linking code. If they have an inexperienced programmer building the tracking, then it would be possible that they don’t know how to handle the url encoded parameters, but that would be an extremely rookie mistake… so not sure why the issue.
So what’s it all mean??? … my two cents is that the first linking code with the pipe does look like the tracking is failing. I just don’t think it’s because of the pipe… but rather bad programming.