NATS Questions....Issue... - GoFuckYourself.com

interracialtoons · 01-06-2007, 06:10 PM

I've seen a lot of post saying "I dont do well with programs that use NATS".

So I will pose this question that I have thought of from the begining but never asked.

Q: Has nats ever run a script over every single "encoded" referral code to see if a duplicate occured?

I'm just saying that encoding can be tricky, and if two webmasters ended up with the same encoded referral code then one webmaster may get all the credit for sign ups. One would say NATS is great and the other would say that it sucks.

I just know from past experience of encoding that once I thought I had a true and tested algorythm but it turned out that the right combination of letters would produce a duplicate that matched a differrent entry.

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BigBen · 01-06-2007, 06:13 PM

I think it's just a Base64 encoded string of your account name, campaign code, and site id. Hard to mess that up.

interracialtoons · 01-06-2007, 06:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigBen

I think it's just a Base64 encoded string of your account name, campaign code, and site id. Hard to mess that up.

Probably so; but I wonder how to do a base64 without getting any special characters in the result such as a "slash".
Maybe special chars can only be produced from input with special chars...I don't know.

01-06-2007, 06:10 PM	#1
interracialtoons Confirmed User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,910	NATS Questions....Issue... I've seen a lot of post saying "I dont do well with programs that use NATS". So I will pose this question that I have thought of from the begining but never asked. Q: Has nats ever run a script over every single "encoded" referral code to see if a duplicate occured? I'm just saying that encoding can be tricky, and if two webmasters ended up with the same encoded referral code then one webmaster may get all the credit for sign ups. One would say NATS is great and the other would say that it sucks. I just know from past experience of encoding that once I thought I had a true and tested algorythm but it turned out that the right combination of letters would produce a duplicate that matched a differrent entry. PBUCKSJOHN: if you're here, don't blow your top, it's just a question. Did you do it or not? __________________ Done.

01-06-2007, 06:13 PM	#2
BigBen Confirmed User Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: scv Posts: 2,299	I think it's just a Base64 encoded string of your account name, campaign code, and site id. Hard to mess that up.