Where do I find info about everything I can log from a visitor?

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I want to collect info about the visitor - like IP-number, referer, agent etc. I assume this is possible with Ruby on Rails (e.g. request.referer), but I cannot find the documentation for this.

Is there any documentation that lists everything that I can log about visits to my app?

Headers partially depend on what user browser send to the server, intermediary servers, etc. Can you be more specific about what ou expect? — Mike Szyndel, Jan 03 '14 at 14:42
I'm looking for the info from user that you traditionally collect in analytics software. — Fellow Stranger, Jan 03 '14 at 14:44
So all you can get is in `request.headers`, try it out in development, this hash includes all headers received by server. — Mike Szyndel, Jan 03 '14 at 14:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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Is this what you're looking for?

EDIT:

So, yeah, in the above link you get some methods for accessing the headers.

You can also access the referrer using the method you said, or with request.env['HTTP_REFERER']. Some more information here:

Rails 3 get request referrer

How to get request referer path?

As for the agent, I made a little research, since I never used, and it seems you can access it with request.env['HTTP_USER_AGENT']. It seems there's also a gem avaliable for the task.

Please let me know if these work out for you =]

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Jan 03 '14 at 14:38

Thyago B. Rodrigues

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Yes! :) But is there any more? Like `agent` and `referer`? – Fellow Stranger Jan 03 '14 at 14:42
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Link only answers are not cool, please at least copy some docs you link to over here! – Mike Szyndel Jan 03 '14 at 14:43
@Fellow request.env.keys – ilan berci Jan 03 '14 at 16:26

Where do I find info about everything I can log from a visitor?

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