On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 17:09 -0800, Rob Hudson wrote: > At work we wanted to set up some quick clickthru tracking. I whipped > up a quick solution that seemed to work on my local machine. The > solution was to use jQuery to look for anchor tags who's href started > with "http://"; as a signifier of external links, and add a click event > to them to direct them back to our server first. Then catch that with > a view that logged it and redirected it back out. > > I liked this solution because: > 1) The user still sees where the link is going in the status bar on > hover.
So you lie to them in other words. You're engaging in something that could arguably be called phishing at that point. :-) Bad habit to get into, I feel. But it's your call. > > Somewhere along the way the URLs are losing a "/" and the original URL > of "http://www.google.com"; gets munged into "http:/www.google.com", > which is resulting in a 404 on our site. [...] > Throwing an assert in my view shows that the url already has lost one > slash. The web server might be collapsing the slashes together. I can't remember whether this is permissible or not, but it might be what's happening. So you'd be sending clickthru/http://foo/bar and receiving clickthru/http:/foo/bar which, if it were a filesystem, would be equivalent. Again, I can't remember (or have the time to check all the details right now), whether the URI spec permits this kind of transformation, but I suspect not. Try using a different escaping function that also replaces slashes. E.g. replace slashes with _@ and "_" with "__", so it's reversible. That should then transmit through cleanly. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
