Comments on: Tracking without cookies

By: Gareth Heyes

Gareth Heyes — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:22:43 +0000

Sorry about the confusion but it all I tried to say was it reduced the length of the hash using substring in javascript. I usually type in a hurry

By: streety

streety — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:12:31 +0000

That makes much more sense than what you actually say in the post.

“creates a unique hash and returns the length of the hash to create the identifier (between 10-32 characters)”

By: Gareth Heyes

Gareth Heyes — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:14:13 +0000

Each user should get a hash based on their browser configuration, so each hash will be different. I was just cutting the length of the hash to get a nicer session id. Instead of a long 32 character session id.

By: streety

streety — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:21:14 +0000

Maybe I misunderstand what’s happening here but if you’re only looking at the length of the hash wouldn’t this limit you to tracking just (32 - 10 =) 22 people?