Trouble with Session Management

I am trying to assess how many people I lose on my site
because they dont have cookies enabled. when I disable cookies in a
browser and <cfoutput> a urltoken, it prints out a new value
every time I refresh the page, as expected. But when I try to log
the CFID when people come to my home page so that I may pass it
around through the site, I get some "element CFID undefined in
session" errors

thanks for the help. I thought Id tell you more about what I
am doing and see if you have comments - we use google to market our
company so clicks are costing us big bucks. currently, our sites
rely on session management to operate, so I realize that folks
having cookies off is really hurting us. All the references I can
find tote passing the session.URLToken around the site to make it
cookie independent. I havent done this yet, first im trying to get
a handle on how many people have cookies off (like you are), and
where people are coming from to see if we are having click fraud
(which we are very suspicious of).
Is this what you would do (passing the URLToken around)? Any
other comments you have would be very much appreciated.

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Hello Mark:
The Session Manager GetLogicalNames method does not distiguish between logical names and virtual instrument names. A user of the method cannot ask for just logical names or just virtual instrument names. Right now you always get both. The new function is called InstrSessionMgr.GetNames. Notice that the online help file says Boolean for the flags parameter when it is an enum.
Hope this helps. If you have any further queries, please let us know.
-NI support
National Instruments - Software IS the instrument!
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thanks for the help. I thought Id tell you more about what I
am doing and see if you have comments - we use google to market our
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find tote passing the session.URLToken around the site to make it
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