Server Side Conversion Tracking

[fravelgue]

Hello,

I´m newbie on Revive Adserver and I like to implement server-side conversion tracking without cookies. But I have many doubts and I´m sure there is a proper way.

 

My initial thinking was sending a clickid (or transactionid or context, sorry I don´t know the macro name) to our landing page, and when a conversion happen, a different server requests to revive server with that info. Is it possible?

 

If that it´s not possible, do you think I could send all cookies values to our landing page and create a new page in revive-server that it receives these values when a conversion happen. And then that page requests to delivery/ti.php (or other page) with right cookies generated? Do you think if revive checks IPs or others to validate the conversion? In that case I couldn´t use that workaround.

 

Thanks in advance, and sorry for my bad english

[andrewatfornax]

Back in the day, when Revive Adserver was OpenX Source (around about version 2.6 I think), conversion tracking was done server side. The problem is that the storage requirements for all the data just got too large when you had more than a trivially sized installation.

 

So, everything was moved to be cookie based. 

 

I honestly can't see us changing things to work in a non-cookie way.

 

But I suspect you probably could make calls to Revive as you have suggested - or, if all else fails, just write the appropriate data to the database!