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    Posted: 25 July 2003 at 12:10pm

First question: What is the best way to go about having an insecure shopping cart? Cookies?
Second question: In an ASP page how can I carry a variable from one page to the next? Through a link?
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For your first question, cookies would work, but I think using a database would be the best way. Even a text file on the server would work, although using a database is much better.

For your second question, you can use a querystring (get)/form (post), session variable, or a cookie. There may be other ways, but these are the most popular and easiest that I know of.
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If you are making a shopping cart it might be worth having some security like basic database encryption and i would also advice not to use text files unless permissions deny directory listing and have encoding/encryption...

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Thank you for the help! How do those GET POST commands look in code?
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The get and post were reffering to form actions, which is html. I don't think you can manually create a form variable without submitting a form, but you can manually make a querystring (also what a form uses when you use the get methood). Although you have to be careful with querystring variables has they are much eaiser to hack then form and session variables are.
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file.asp is the file in which you want to retrive querystring variables in this example.  If  you goto file.asp?variable1=hello and in file.asp  put <%=request.querystring("variable1")%>  it  should  write  'hello'.
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