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document cookies, sessions requirements for tracking request #9255

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maboiteaspam opened this issue Nov 23, 2015 · 2 comments
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document cookies, sessions requirements for tracking request #9255

maboiteaspam opened this issue Nov 23, 2015 · 2 comments
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@maboiteaspam
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Hi,

Looking forward to know if the server is writing, either cookies or session, to the client when a tracking request occur.

In my reading, so far, i found out that the job was done in the javascript tracker implementation.

This said, the software is pretty huge and have many plugins, thus i find it difficult to get an overview.

Is there any guideline, reference or document about that ?
Is the server allowed to store session values, is the server allowed to write cookies on the client during a tracking request processing ?

thanks !

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mattab commented Nov 24, 2015

Hello,

please use forums to ask questions. See also: https://piwik.org/faq/general/faq_146/

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@maboiteaspam
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hi,

Ok.

If i m right, so called "first party cookies" are set from the JS.

And if you want to enable tracking across multiple site, a "third party cookie" is set from piwik.php.

So in

To track visitors, Piwik by default uses 1st party cookies, set on the domain of your website. Cookies created by Piwik start with: _pk_ref, _pk_cvar, _pk_id, _pk_ses.

At https://piwik.org/faq/general/faq_146/

It s about the piwik JS, right ?

thanks

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