From: Tim Dierks <tim@dierks.org>
To: Scott Wyant <scott_wyant@loop.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-07-01 23:28:48 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:28:48 +0800
From: Tim Dierks <tim@dierks.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 07:28:48 +0800
To: Scott Wyant <scott_wyant@loop.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Doubleclick]
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At 10:24 AM 7/1/96, Scott Wyant wrote:
>At 12:43 PM 6/30/96 -0700, jon@aggroup.com wrote:
>>> > >From: Scott Wyant <scott_wyant@loop.com> Subject: COMMENT:
>>> > >
>>> > >If you're like me, you never went to a site called "doubleclick."
>>> > >So how did they give you a cookie? After all, the idea of the
>>> > >cookie, according to the specs published by Netscape, is to make a
>>> > >more efficient connection between the server the delivers the
>>> > >cookie and the client machine which receives it.
>>> > >But we have never connected to "doubleclick."
>>
>>Scott must have. Navigator is very picky about where a cookie comes
>>from and what is put in the domain field of the cookie.
>
>Nope. I'm afraid your information is incorrect here. I've also watched
>other sites hand me a double-click cookie.
The way doubleclick works is that the sites who contract with them to sell
advertising space insert a URL into their page which fetches the
doubleclick ad banner. For example, the guys at TroutHeads, Inc.
(www.troutheads.com) would insert an HTML IMAGE tag with an HREF referring
to ad.doubleclick.net; that then results in _your_ browser doing an HTTP
transaction with ad.doubleclick.net; doubleclick can then hand you all the
cookies it wants.
Anytime you fetch an image, you're visiting a site, and because it's
automatic, you can easily visit a lot of sites you never knew you were
going to.
>From <URL:http://www.doubleclick.net/web_sites/htmlchange.htm>:
For any HTML document you wish to display an ad banner for, simply add the
following
HTML tags:
<CENTER><A HREF="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/MY_URL">
<IMG SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/MY_URL" WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60
ISMAP></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE="2">Click on graphic to find out more!</FONT></CENTER>
Where MY_URL is the URL for the HTML document displaying the ad banner. For
example:
<CENTER><A
HREF="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/www.iaf.net/htmlchange.htm">
<IMG SRC="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/www.iaf.net/htmlchange.htm"
WIDTH=468 HEIGHT=60 ISMAP></A>
<BR><FONT SIZE="2">Click on graphic to find out more!</FONT></CENTER>
- Tim
Tim Dierks - Software Haruspex - tim@dierks.org
"...when ketchup finally comes out of the bottle, it is going a good 25 miles a
year.... It rolls along at three-thousandths of a mile an hour. Heinz knows the
speed because it has a device called a Bostwickometer, a chutelike contraption
that calculates the speed at which ketchup travels."
- The New York Times, June 12, 1996
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