Personal URLs are becoming very popular and will be here for some time to come. Is anyone using PURLs and if so what is the general proceedure followed in setting up and tracking using this method?

Thanks!

Dale

There is no one way to do this...

You could buy a software package like XMpie or Xtreme to do this for you..

Or you could write one yourself via PHP / Mysql and Apache.

It all depends on what you want to do.

If you want to create a simple URL that identifies a user, all you need to do is write a page to read in the URL string, drop the first section and use that last part which would identify the user. Then use that to look up the data in a DB and use that for the rest of the data.

Things to be careful of... Data security, realize that PURL's offer someone the ability to dictionary attack and extract any user data you put out there. Therefore, a good step is some sort of authentication or verification before providing identifying information.