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Anonymous
February 22, 2013

HTTP Post

  • February 22, 2013
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I have a request from a third-party vendor to do a HTTP Post to Marketo. I've read through some of the past discussions, but I'm not clear on exactly what I need to provide to this vendor. I've put together a landing page/form for this project, but I'm not sure what we need to pull off of that for the vendor.

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Jep_Castelein2
Jep_Castelein2
Level 10
July 16, 2013
_mkt_trk is optional and allows you to "cookie" the lead. You can read the value of the cookie via JavaScript or server-side scripting languages. However, if you simply add the munchkin tracking code your page and make sure there is a hidden field _mkt_trk, the munchkin code will put the Cookie ID in this field dynamically. 
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Anonymous
July 16, 2013
Thanks for responding quickly Jep.

I'm a little confused when you mention 'form'. Marketo form or something else?

Our 3rd-Party profider is going to POST leads to our form which is not being used on a landing page. I can't find '_mkt_trk' in Field Management to use on my form to make hidden.

I added '_mkt_trk' to my HTTP test plug in for Google Chrome. All works well, lead got created with 'filled out form' activities.

As you can tell I'm new to playing with HTTP POST.


Jep_Castelein2
Jep_Castelein2
Level 10
July 16, 2013
Edward, your 3rd party provider will not have access to your tracking cookie, so you can't pass on the Cookie ID
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Anonymous
August 1, 2013
Jep, thank you so much for spelling that out. You should transform this into an official knowledge base article!
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Anonymous
August 1, 2013
Thanks Delinda, I've been trying that for 7 months, I will submit it again
Kenny_Elkington
Adobe Employee
Kenny_ElkingtonAdobe Employee
Adobe Employee
August 20, 2013
Since this method has become quite a bit more popular, I just wanted to add a little extra information to the method that Jep provided.  There are three required parameters in the POST made to the Marketo Leadcapture URL.  These are case sensitive: 'formid' the ID of the form you want to appear in the activity log, 'returnLPId' should equal -1, and 'munchkinId' which is your Munchkin ID.
Jep_Castelein2
Jep_Castelein2
Level 10
September 12, 2013
This article now has a permanent location here: 
http://community.marketo.com/MarketoResource?id=kA650000000GsXXCA0 

    CameronB
    CameronB
    Level 1
    March 23, 2023

    Hi, that link you posted is now outdated and goes to a "Page not found" error. Is there an updated resource on how to create postbacks from places like race roster? 

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    Anonymous
    March 31, 2014
    We've been successfully using this method to post leads into Marketo for about 1 year and we noticed over the last couple of weeks, that we've been receiving a HTTP 429 response ( Too Many Requests) after ~10 consecutive form posts from some of our external vendors.  Has something changed that would cause the server to timeout after multiple requests?  Maybe something in a recent release?  If there's a new timeout limit, how much time should we wait between posts?  Thanks, Brian.
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    Anonymous
    April 1, 2014
    We are experiencing the same behavior (HTTP 429) when sending multiple posts in a row. Is there some kind of governor limits being put into place?
    Jep_Castelein2
    Jep_Castelein2
    Level 10
    April 1, 2014
    I'm checking to see whether anything has changed. I'll let you know as soon as I find out. Also feel free to open a support ticket. 
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