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dopplesoldner
dopplesoldner

Reputation: 9499

Shared cookie across browsers

I am currently investigating ways to be able to tell if our website has seen a "device" before.

I know how to set normal cookies in Rails and that would work for a browser.

But I was wondering if it is possible to use LSO or any other mechanism which would allow me to detect a particular "device" across browsers?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 387

Answers (1)

Paulo Fidalgo
Paulo Fidalgo

Reputation: 22331

I wouldn't recommend you to use flash cookies, since you are identifying a device, it won't work with mobile devices (even android deprecated flash).

You can try this approach to identify the user, still take notice of "Do not track me" options in browsers.

Another option you have, which works specially good for mobile browsers are the proprietary HTTP headers used. Check this article where it lists some useful ones, specially the "x-wsb-identity".

Upvotes: 1

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