iTP Secure WebServer System Administrator's Guide (Version 7.0)

Administering Session Identifiers for Anonymous
Sessions
iTP Secure WebServer System Administrator’s Guide—523346-012
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Ticketing and Tracking Example
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Now the user has received one resource and makes a request for another. The Web
client has retained the user’s ticket so it can be reused, as shown in Figure 11-2.
Again, the ticket is logged. Because the ticket contains a user ID that uniquely
identifies the user, the company in this example can track and analyze a user’s Web
activity by generating reports based on the log file.
Figure 11-1. Requesting a Ticket
Figure 11-2. Using a Ticket
Internet
URL Request
Redirect to
URL with ticket
URL Request,
with ticket
Requested
resource
iTP Secure WebServer
No ticket, so...
...iTP Secure WebServer
generates ticket and
sends a redirect to
the web client.
This time, there is
a ticket, so...
...the resource
is returned.
Web Client
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Internet
URL Request,
with ticket
Requested
resource
iTP Secure WebServer
Web Client
Subsequent requests are
sent with the same ticket..
.
...so the resource
is returned
immediately
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