Does CS-Cart do “License checking” or is the cart totally self-contained, don’t have to worry if the cart license server goes down?
Reason I ask is that a long time ago I had a helpdesk system that required license checking and their dang license server took a dive and left me high and dry, couldn’t communicate with customers at all 
No specific license checking, but the software phones home through graphic tags embedded in the code. Through these tags if they see a cart using the software on an unregisitered domain name they will contact you or your host.
[quote name=‘scanreg’]Does CS-Cart do “License checking” or is the cart totally self-contained, don’t have to worry if the cart license server goes down?
Reason I ask is that a long time ago I had a helpdesk system that required license checking and their dang license server took a dive and left me high and dry, couldn’t communicate with customers at all :([/quote]
It’s just a callback, none of that always-on bull****
Ahhhhhhh, relief…
Thanks 
[quote name=‘Triplets’]No specific license checking, but the software phones home through graphic tags embedded in the code. Through these tags if they see a cart using the software on an unregisitered domain name they will contact you or your host.[/QUOTE]
This is wonderful! Now I have to dig until I figure out how it works. I have several products of my own I would like to have such a check!!!
It is rather standard, you take a string that is html that connects to a specific php page on your website. You encode your string with a function so it would be impossible to find it with a simple search, many overuse base64 to the degree that you can simply search for that function in the code. For best result you would use your own decode function that would be on execution triggered and would decode to the HTML that would “touch off” your script/page on your server. Then your script would have a library of websites that your other script could crawl and catalog. Then you would compare the registered sites with non-registered sites and follow up on those that don’t seem to be registered. That being said, that link does not have to connect to you on each page load, first, it would be too much of your and customer’s bandwidth, plus, all you need to know is once or a few times, and, it would be easy to discover if that link would be on each page. Thus, you would plant it on something that is used rarely, like new admin creation, export of some info…