Auto populate form from Marketo cookie and auto submitting the form

[Anonymous]

As Mentioned, only using the auto submit form as an idea to capture the lead, but reading through your blog posts, I will wait till you write the second part of the actual tracking mechanism, I will also attempt to try what you suggested on your other blog post here

http://blog.teknkl.com/stop-using-direct-download-links-unless-you-like-losing-tracking/

[Anonymous]

Your solution here

http://blog.teknkl.com/stop-using-direct-download-links-unless-you-like-losing-tracking/

Worked like a charm ! Thanks! buuuut... (and theres always a but) it works in all browsers except for Internet explorer for some reason, in IE it does the progress bar and is stuck on the blank page..(but my marketo campaign still detects it navigated to the pdf file)

[SanfordWhiteman]

only using the auto submit form as an idea to capture the lead...

An automatic background form submission is one way to associate an anonymous web session with a lead, yes.  If you have the email address, this is possible (I personally don't like it since it creates a spurious Filled Out Form activity, but it does work).

But this only works if you have the email address, perhaps passed encoded in the URL. In the scenario you first described, you didn't have the email address to begin with. You were trying to fetch the email address from Marketo based on the current cookie. And this is unnecessary, since if the session is already associated with the lead, you don't need to do a background form submission.  The web activities in that session are already being tied to the lead!  Does this part make sense?

[Anonymous]

I was simply trying to follow instructions from, the docs there mention to paste in a browser to check for sucess...

http://developers.marketo.com/rest-api/

http://developers.marketo.com/blog/external-page-prefill/