Maintain user's reference number in site

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Hello Developers,

In so many sites, the user's reference number is maintained.
No matter from wherever user enters in the site, its reference is
maintained. Then whatever page accessed or whatever operation
made is referenced with that reference number. I want to do the
same in my site. I am using MVC 5/ WCF service in my website.
Please suggest me how to implement this.

Posted 9-Jun-15 2:56am

kailash_tandel87

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CHill60 9-Jun-15 9:07am

Cookies?

kailash_tandel87 9-Jun-15 9:30am

If user disable cookies then?

CHill60 9-Jun-15 9:31am

Their reference number won't be available in the site when they return to it - it's their choice

kailash_tandel87 9-Jun-15 9:41am

Its not their choice, Its developer's choice, I want to track the user's history, that's why I want to implement this.

CHill60 9-Jun-15 9:43am

It is the users choice whether or not to have their history tracked, not yours.

kailash_tandel87 9-Jun-15 10:47am

But still I want to do this then? See I just need suggestion here, how can I implement this type of logic? Its not the discussion about choice or not.

CHill60 9-Jun-15 11:00am

You use cookies.
If the user has disabled them then you can't do what you want to do.
If you want to track a history of where they have been on your site then you will have to store that server-side somewhere.
If you want to maintain their reference number during the course of the session then see MSDN[^]

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F-ES Sitecore · Answer 1 · 2015-06-09T03:17:00

Solution 1

http://blog.codeinside.eu/2010/10/19/howto-create-and-remove-cookies-with-asp-net-mvc/[^]

Posted 9-Jun-15 3:17am

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kailash_tandel87 9-Jun-15 10:47am

Thanks, Its nice but I dont want to use cookies.

F-ES Sitecore 9-Jun-15 10:54am

Then you can't do it. The web is stateless and the only way to maintain state between calls is cookies. Your alternative is to append the id to every url but that has so many downsides it's not worth considering. If the user wants to disable cookies then that's their choice, the internet as a whole won't be a very nice experience for them.

kailash_tandel87 10-Jun-15 2:24am

thank you for your valuable sollution.