In practice, Microsoft Wallet is not widely used by shoppers, so the Wallet functionality is usually best removed from the basic shop template. The Ad Server is used to manage the targeting of banner ads on the website. Like the Wallet, the Ad Server appears to be little used by SSCE developers. Coding Conventions As well as containing a number of useful COM objects and shop templates, SSCE also introduces certain coding conventions and procedures that can assist with cutting down on development time. It assists development of the secure site by containing an admin function that allows the site to be developed in a non secure environment, then the URLs of the live site to be modified to use https.
Cookies have their own particular problems of course.
One major problem with cookies is the fact that they cannot be used between servers, so a shop using cookies could not be as easily load balanced compared to one using query strings alone. Site Server's Personalisation and Membership features also require that cookies be used. Use of the global.asa SSCE makes extensive use of the global.asa. In particular, it stores SQL queries in a dictionary object so that they can be easily accessed from pipelines and ASP documents. This is a third party application that allows for the real time processing of credit card details.