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Question by Graeme W. · Nov 26, 2013 at 06:40 PM ·

Referer field in easyTravel

I've been looking into the referer field for a prospect who'd like dynaTrace to be more like Google Analytics (or Tealeaf?) and I noticed something in easyTravel I don't understand.

It looks like the referer field is set to the page itself.  That is, when a web request for http://localhost:8079/orange.jsf arrives, the referer field is also set to http://localhost:8079/orange.jsf.

I don't think this is right.  I understand that the data is synthetic â€“ there aren't actually real people hitting the web site on my laptop â€“ but would it be possible to set this field to a more realistic value?

Or do I misunderstand?

-- Graeme

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Answer by Andreas G. · Nov 27, 2013 at 03:28 PM

Correct. So it should be with easyTravel and the simulated traffic. The thing with easyTravel though is that most of the actions are actually executed on orange.jsf. So - when you search it goes back to the same url that you are already on. There is only a small number of different urls ending with .jsf

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Answer by Graeme W. · Nov 27, 2013 at 03:13 PM

I wasn't so much concerned with the domain as with the fact that every page is its own referer.  That is, all the requests to /orange.jsf have /orange.jsf as the referer.

My understand of the referer field is that it is where the user came from.  So if a user clicks on a link on page1.html and goes to page2.html, the referer field for the page2.html request will be "page1.html".

Is this correct?

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Answer by Andreas G. · Nov 27, 2013 at 07:45 AM

The referer field is set in a way the browser would set it - meaning - telling the web server the context of where this request comes from - or better - where the user came from.

We use the referer as one of the options to "link" requests to user actions. So - the referer must match the URLs of the actual application. If you run easyTravel on localhost:8079 then the referer should use that URL. If you setup easyTravel to use alias domains, e.g: www.easytravel.com it will automatically use it.

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