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YeppThat'sMe
YeppThat'sMe

Reputation: 1862

Expressjs cant get origin or referer

Is it possible to find out where are users coming from when the click a link which points to my site?

Lets assume I own http://example.com and a link (http://example.com/foobar) is placed on http://example.net/path/to/subsite. .net is not my site

Now, when a visitor comes from example.net by clicking the link. Am I able to get the origin somehow?

I run an webserver using express js and I dont know what am I doing wrong here.

const express = require('express')
const router = express.Router()
router.use(function (req, res, next) {
  const origin = req.get('origin')
  const host = req.get('host')
  // Nothing here tells me the origin.
  console.log(origin, host, req.headers)
})

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1143

Answers (1)

Phani
Phani

Reputation: 90

This will give you the URL which is calling your Express.JS API

req.headers.referer;

Upvotes: 0

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