Posted by David Dorward on 12/28/05 11:31

newb guy wrote:

> Thanks, David:

Please do not top post.
http://allmyfaqs.net/faq.pl?How_to_post

> I actually think I can do it with javascript (getting a bit off html
> thread). Why can't the page that includes a small vote window (the
> 'calling page') call an html code segment that just shows vote options,
> via javascript (calling to a 'vote server'), and have the vote server
> capture the ip number or cookie the client, and then redirect to the same
> calling page, and then show the results by using cookie/ip address to
> track that the link inside the vote window was clicked on.

For the same reason that you can't open a page to Amazon.com and read the
cookie information containing the user's authentication token.

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