Surfer Tracking uses the URL
By now you've probably read that WebHub tracks the surfer through a
unique number in the URL. And if you have been watching your own
URLs go by as you read pages on this site, you may have noticed that
a number keeps following you around. It's your current session number.
Look at any page link and you will see that Session Number. Just move your mouse over a page link now to see for yourself.
From an HTML specialist's point of view, this raises a big question - how do you write the A HREF links, given that they have to be customized for each surfer? In WebHub, you make page links with macros. The WebHub macros reference the target pages by their PageIDs, instead of by filenames.
Linking example
When you design your site, you give each page an indentifying name, called the
PageID. When you want to link to a page, you do it by PageID,
instead of the l-o-n-g w-a-y required by standard HTML and CGI. Here
is an example of the syntax one would use when linking to a PAGEID called
CONTACT:
(~JUMP|CONTACT|Link to the Contact Page~)
When this macro is expanded, it creates this:
Link to the Contact Page
As long as you use the WebHub macros to link your pages, surfers will keep their session numbers, and state will be preserved.
Additional benefits to using page aliasing
Page aliasing uses a PageID and some optional parameters to essentially set up a short alias
that refers to a much longer URL (e.g. Contact aliases to: /contact).
You can set up an alias that goes beyond your current web application by using the optional parameters for "AppID" and "ServerID":