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Example of page using image pixel to send data to another server to be set in a cookie
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setcookie.example.html
<html>
<head>
<title>Set cookie example</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Set cookie example</h1>
This is a page on the site where the cookie is already available.
<script language="javascript">
/* This is where our data layer is being set */
digitalData = {
user: {
userid: 'a3cceba83235dc95f750108d22c14731'
}
};
</script>
<script language="javascript">
/* This is where we can pull the value from the data layer to populate
* a pixel to set the cookie on the other domain
*/
var img = document.createElement('img');
img.height = 1;
img.width = 1;
img.src = 'https://www.mybank.com/setcookie.php?userid=' + digitalData.user.userid;
</script>
</body>
</html>
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