I'm not sure in which forum topic this fits in but I am hoping you shed some light on a problem that came up at work lately since I've never worked with this sort of thing before - cookies. This has to do with affiliate marketing. To put things short, my company uses cookies to track the referrer's username (ie the person through whom new users register). This is in turn tracked by our servers and the affiliates are paid a commission for every referral.
Basically this process works perfectly in firefox, safari and chrome browsers but not in internet explorer. It seems to be quite random because it does work on the rare occasion but it mostly doesn't save the cookies that contain the username of the affiliate and therefore we cannot track the referrals made through internet explorer by the users.
Do you have any idea or experience regarding this? By the way, this is done through a tracking url using redir.cgi and adding the values in the address itself (for example: http://www.---.com/cgi-bin/redir.cgi...le=123&lang=en). I've tried to research about what might be the cause of the problem but all I found were other people complaining that internet explorer gives problems but no solutions. Do you have any idea how this tracking works?
Thanks a lot, I would appreciate your help  |
