Can’t Get External Site HTTP_REFERER (Divi Theme)

I created a custom plugin that sets a cookie with the value of the HTTP_REFERER value only if the value isn’t a URL for an internal page so it is capturing external website referral URLs.

However it appears either the way WordPress or the Divi Theme works, the HTTP_REFERER value always gets set to a CSS file on the website! Wondering if there is any way around this so I can set a cookie with the referring URL of the external website?

Example:

https%3A%2F%2Fwww.somedomain.com%2Fwp-content%2Fet-cache%2Fglobal%2Fet-divi-customizer-global-15755732849498.min.css

Is there no way of getting around this when using Divi? Is this a WordPress issue and not a Divi issues?

Code example:

function dtfn_init_actions(){

	if(!session_id()){
		ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 3600*24*30);
		session_start();
	}

	if ((! strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'],'somedomain') or $_REQUEST['source']) and !isset($_COOKIE['source']))
	{
		if (!isset($_REQUEST['source']))
		{
			setcookie('source', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], time() + (86400 * 30), "/", ".somedomain.com");
		}
		else
		{
			setcookie('source', $_REQUEST['source'], time() + (86400 * 30), "/", ".somedomain.com");
		}
           }
 }

add_action('init', 'dtfn_init_actions');

• This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
• This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by bcworkz. Reason: code fixed