JS tracker, referer and single page app

[Anton Kirillov]

Hello guys!

I'm testing snowplow SJ tracker on site with "single page" frontend architecture. And I've got an issue with "referer". 

For example:

1. We on http://site/a. Click on link /b

2. Browser opens page /b. Referer header is "http://site/a". 

(page /b is a "single page" which makes body after data is requested thru ajax)

3. On the page /b we click on link /b2 and app does:

- gets /b2 thru ajax and show it in the body

- sets the page url as /b2 thru the JS code

- calls the snowplow user event

Finally we see:

- snowplow tracker request: http://tracker/i?e=ue&.........&refr=http://site/a 

(it's incorrect)

- current page url is /b2

(window.location.href = "http://site/b2", window.top.document.referrer = "http://site/a")

It seems that snowplow generate wrong referer and as result we have wrong source (referer) for user events.

1. Do you know about this behavior?

2. Is it a bug? 

3. How can we send correct actual referer?

[Anton Kirillov]

> SJ tracker

JS tracker )

[Alex Dean]

git clone https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow-javascript-tracker.git
grep -ri "refer[r?]er" snowplow-javascript-tracker/src

Take a look at the returned function to see how the Snowplow JavaScript Tracker grabs the referer. The solution may be some history.pushState-style manipulation on the AJAX side, or there may be something achievable on the JS Tracker side (or a combo of both).

Let us know how you get on!

A

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[Fred Blundun]

Hi Anton,

It's possible to override the referrer url using the setReferrerUrl function:

snowplow_name_here("setReferrerUrl", "http://site/b");

Does that answer your question?

Regards,

Fred

[Alex Dean]

Thanks Fred!

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[Anton Kirillov]

Thanks!

I'll check it.

On Friday, October 31, 2014 3:40:20 PM UTC+3, Anton Kirillov wrote: