[ic] Session Referer not as Expected

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Mon Apr 1 11:01:01 2002


At 09:28 PM 3/31/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Quoting Orko (orko@eacceleration.com):
> > I have noticed that in my catalog, the referer of a particular user is
> > stored in their session.  We have multiple sources of traffic that we
> > want to track and measure performance on.  The problem is that we are
> > seeing orders from users seemingly coming from a referer that couldn't
> > possibly be pointing to the place they came in at in the catalog.
> >
> > The possibility of page caching had been discussed, but further tests
> > and looking through the Vend::Server and Vend::Session modules made me
> > believe that if a user's session hadn't expired yet, the referer that is
> > used for them is the one that they *first* came in with when their
> > session was started.
>
>This is correct, and as intended, so as to not lose the source of the
>initial entry.
>
>You can use the UserTag [env HTTP_REFERER] if you want the momentary value,
>providing you put
>
>   Environment  HTTP_REFERER
>
>in interchange.cfg.
>

Actually, I just tested the tag with a link from an outside URL, and it 
works fine without needing the interchange.cfg entry, at least on my server 
(using Apache).

- Ed L.


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