How to handle banner capping in video ads?

Question

We all know that when serving normal ads (with document.write and all that) it's easy to setup cookies on the client's machine even if the ad server is on a remote domain (include a pixel 1x1 image when logging the ad impression and that will do the trick).

My question is: how can i handle this capping process in a flash environment? My current working configuration is:

• an OpenX ad server which serves ads to a krpano player;
• the swf pano player and the ad server are on two different domains.

I know capping involves cookies and my guess is I'd have to use socket connections to manually handle them. But how?...Rewriting the received cookies so that they can be stored on the same domain doesn't quite fly. Neither is storing them using a server side storing facility. All that i can thing of besides that is storing them in Flash Shared Objects.

So what do you think?...Is there a better way of doing this?

Answer 1

Hi Alexb,

I dont have a answer to you question, but i want to know how you got the openx ads into krpano.

Did you do it via a swf include or is the ad displaying somewhere around the content?

Tiaan