Hi Nicole,
You can not retrieve information stored in a cookie which set by 
one domain from some other domain. Try passing all the information 
you want with the image SRC tag.

regards
Viraj


Nicole wrote:
> 
> OK. Thanks.
> 
> I have the hidden image code:
> 
> <img src=http://thetrackingurl/?param1=val1&param2=val2&etc... height=0
> width=0 border=0>
> 
> This hidden image code is placed on the ThankYou page that people see after
> they have bought something.  What it does is load a script on the tracking
> site to let the owner know a sale was made.
> 
> The tracking site is different from the site that the product is sold on.
> 
> A cookie was placed on the client's (buyer) side to store where that client
> originated from. So when the hidden image is called, the tracking script is
> called and tries to access this cookie to retrieve where the buyer came
> from.
> 
> But the script just gets a blank cookie when accessed this way(via hidden
> image); However, if the script was accessed directly, or the thankyou page
> resided on the same domain as the tracking script (which created the cookie
> to begin with), the cookie has the value that it was set with.
> 
> Does this make sense?  Thanks for any input.  PHP's docs on sessions didn't
> seem to have anything relating to this situation; so I'm stuck.
> 
> Nicole
> 
> "Chris Shiflett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > --- Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Is this question too advanced for this newsgroup?
> >
> > Somehow I doubt it. But, that's a nice tactic for grabbing some attention.
> :-)
> >
> > Show us some sample code of a very small test case. I can't really follow
> your
> > description of what you are trying to do.
> >
> > Chris
> >
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