Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS
by AgentME on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @01:33PM
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It's easy to design a system like this where the actual link isn't available client-side, and the server doesn't need to wait on a DB read and write before responding to the client: make the URL parameter be the destination URL encrypted so that only the server can read it. That kills the need for a DB read. Then the server can respond to the request before the DB write finishes since the integrity/consistency of that write is likely less critical than the response time.
Re:Crooked Style Sheeding – Webpage tracking using only CSS
by Daycrawler on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:34AM
(#16176598)
That's correct.
There's little interest in proxying through a token system (this would require a DB read at each click, and a DB write at each page generation), which means the actual link is available client-side and the whole thing can be bypassed.