taged asp text possible?

[kab_184]

hi

i just saw few email service provider who track emails using imges which seems to be taged for example http://www.lifenet.com/hope.jpg?id=2323 etc

so when the image loads it writes something to the website on which the image is located...

is it possible to create any text which does the same thing or any taged asp page which carries a specific tag..for example

www.lifenet.com/jungle.asp?id=3434

so when the page loads it writes the id=3434 and date and time to the lifenet.com server. so adds a record that the jungle.asp was accessed by id=3434 ??how is it done if possible?what code will the jungle.asp will be containing to achieve this ??i dutn know the asp so asking u people for help??so Help me.....

[raf]

I don't know about these images, but you probably need to check the logfiles of the server where this image is on, to get the values from the querystring.

With text ...

Well, you could send the mail in HTML-form (mind you, not all clients will open and proces this as html !!) and have a redirect in it (with javascript or so). You can then add the id value (probalby the clients ID) to the url where you redirect to.
But you can be certain that a (large) part of the users wount open it as html or don't have javascript enabled or read it ofline and wount reconnect for the redirect.
So it certainly wount be accurate ...

[whammy]

Yes, it's often called a tricky pixel.

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