Make 1 Pixel Fire Other Tracking Pixels - $100

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Problem:

You have 3 "image" tracking pixels - say from Google, Yahoo and MSN. You want to create ONE "master" pixel that upon firing will fire the 3 pixels.

The "master" pixel must be inserted into an html page (such as "thank you" page) in the form of <img src>.

I've seen an implementation in ASPX so I know it CAN be done. But I would prefer implementation that does not use ASPX.

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Are you sure that you've seen this done? It seems like a huge security issue to allow HTML or the results of server side code to be inserted into the DOM of the page that called it through an img tag - Its one thing to use an img to execute server side code on your page and eventually read an image file back, but to drop arbitrary HTML doesnt seem possible - Anyone care to comment?
 
curl won't fire the pixels properly. Google/yahoo/msn records sets a cookie when they click then the img retrieves the cookie and if it matches that click than it counts the conversion. You don't have to use the javascript you can use the img tag inside the <noscript but you need to use all three img tags it has to be the users browser that grabs the image.
 
Ehh, I appreciate all of the technical comments but I'd rather just buy the working solution :) Noone has stepped up yet. All talk no walk.
 
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Hey there, I was looking for the exact same thing for a client of mine recently. The best price I found for a working implementation was just under $300.

Just thought I would let you know that it can be done and what it will probably cost.
 
Can't be done. I don't care what you saw. It has to be done on the client (browser) side else the only thing these pixels are tracking is your server (which made the request).

If you want to hide it from the code (sort of) create a ajax request which loads the img code into the page once it is run (but then again if the browser doesn't support JS or Ajax then you won't record anything anyway.

....or

create a html page called tracker.html and copy and paste the following code into it.

Code: 
<html>
<head>
<head>
<body>
<img src="tracking url here"/>
<img src="tracking url here"/>
<img src="tracking url here"/>
</body>
</html>


then add the following code to the pages you want to track
Code: 
<iframe src="tracker.html?url={insert_current_url_here}" style="display:none"></iframe>

This will track the browser details but the only downfall is that the referrering url for the tracker will be 'tracker.html?url={insert_current_url_here}' meaning you need to filter on the url querystring.
 
As I mentioned I saw a working, successful implementation in .aspx


ikonic said:
Can't be done. I don't care what you saw. It has to be done on the client (browser) side else the only thing these pixels are tracking is your server (which made the request).

If you want to hide it from the code (sort of) create a ajax request which loads the img code into the page once it is run (but then again if the browser doesn't support JS or Ajax then you won't record anything anyway.

....or

create a html page called tracker.html and copy and paste the following code into it.

Code: 
<html>
<head>
<head>
<body>
<img src="tracking url here"/>
<img src="tracking url here"/>
<img src="tracking url here"/>
</body>
</html>


then add the following code to the pages you want to track
Code: 
<iframe src="tracker.html?url={insert_current_url_here}" style="display:none"></iframe>

This will track the browser details but the only downfall is that the referrering url for the tracker will be 'tracker.html?url={insert_current_url_here}' meaning you need to filter on the url querystring.
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datingloot.com said:
As I mentioned I saw a working, successful implementation in .aspx
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I can tell you that unless the request is from the clients browser you aren't tracking shit and therefore you must be mistaken.

When you try to use the web server to create a http request for the image all your requests are from a single ip (the servers) unless your spoofing the ip address, referrer and user agent.

One single image can't magically spawn another 2 or 3 images on the fly. in the browser. without some type of client side script creating the event. period.

btw: aspx is a file extension, not a language
 
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