Referrer Information

[BrianC]

Hello,

I recently implemented a large scale change in site architecture to
help eliminate duplicate content in the eyes of spiders. This seems
to be working well. My question is this. I can see the list if 301
Permanently Moved requests in FR. Seeing the request info tells me
that my redirects are working properly. Does FR store the referrer
information? I would like to figure out where these requests are
coming from as I have change my site links in an effort to remove
these duplicate content URLs. The easiest way for me to do this would
be to see the referrer for the 301s that are being tracked by FR.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brain Cain

[David Stockton]

Hello Brian,

Yes - you can see the HTTP referer.
Simply click the "301 Moved Permenantly" link and it will show you a
list of requests (still in the history) with that return code.
From that list, click the blue "Request Details" icon next to the
request you want further information on.
Click the "Headers" sub-tab on the request details page. Under the
"Request: Headers" you'll then see the referring page (assuming the
client browser passed that information).

Best regards,
David Stockton
Fusion Support Team

[Brian Cain]

That is what i was hoping, but I do not see any referrer information on that tab.  I don't even see a place where it would be displayed.

Thanks,

Brian

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[David Stockton]

Hello Brian,

The UI displays all available request headers but no place-holders for
any missing ones.
You're looking for the one called labelled "Referer: ". If it's not
there, then the referrer wasn't made available to the server by the
client browser (noting that the web-server or a Layer7 load-balancer/
reverse-proxy etc may have altered the original request).

Best regards,
David Stockton
Fusion Support Team

On Feb 9, 4:10 pm, Brian Cain <bcc9...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That is what i was hoping, but I do not see any referrer information on
> that tab.  I don't even see a place where it would be displayed.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:04 AM, David Stockton

> <david.j.stock...@gmail.com>wrote:

[charlie arehart]

The Request: Headers section of the Headers tab does indeed show headers if there are any, whenever I have looked.

If there are none there, are you saying there are no request headers? Or just not that one? Of course, there may be some glitch. It can happen.

But I suspect something else would explain it. For instance, are you looking at the page that has the 301, meaning the one that was requested (rather than the one it redirected to)? If so, it would not have a referrer if called by a spider, or any user who just types in the URL in their browser.  

But maybe you’re really interested in seeing the referrer in the request that was redirected FROM the one that did the 301. In that case, that should show a referrer (being the page it redirected from), I think. I haven’t tested it.

Let us know if the info above helps or not.

/charlie