Webhooks

[Mark Sapiro]

On 06/16/2015 09:15 AM, Chris Chapman wrote:
> Having just watched the absolutely cringe-worthy video on webhooks.org
> <http://webhooks.org>, this is indeed what is going on. The service
> (such as mailchimp) tracks all the response information - bounces,
> opens, etc. Then it sends an http(s) post to your script on your server
> for various events. You set different URLs to receive post content for
> these events.


I don't have enough patience to watch the video, but my question is how
does mailchimp/whatever actually track the 'open'. Is this via the
standard web bug that we already deal with, via some modified web bug
such as an html stylesheet reference rather than a 1x1 transparent
image, or via some 'new' mechanism?

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