How To Trap The URL To Which A User Is Navigating To?

[CaptainRon 0]

I want that whenever a user tries to navigate away from my page (assume by directly typing the URL), I be able to trap the destination URL. Whenever someone would want to navigate away, the window.onunload will fire up. But how to trap the target URL? Any suggestions?

[szupie 0]

There is no way to find out what your user types into the navigational toolbar. That would be an invasion of privacy. The only way you can find a user's target URL is when they click on a link on your site. You just need to add something to log the clicks in your link. You can also log where users come from with a referrer ip catcher script.

[twitch 0]

You're one of those annoying web page developers, the ones that make their sites throw thousands of ads at you when you want to leave.Shame on you CaptainRon, shame :PWhy would you want to know where they are going anyway? You should be wanting to know how to keep them.

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

Actually there's a way of detecting the outbound URL whenever you navigate away from the current domain.

 

I'm not sure of the functions involved but it's primarily based on JavaScript and used by many of the scripts that track which AdSense Ad you clicked on and subsequently which URL you landed up on.

 

Studying the innards such scripts might help you... here's one I'm using as of now: Contextual Tracker.

 

However, AFAIK such scripts have their limitations. If we take Contextual Tracker for example, it's unable to track outbound URLs from Firefox, as it happens to be one of the more secure browsers. In contrast, Internet Explorer reveals the outbound URLs just fine

[pyost 0]

... And since Internet Explorer is used by over 50 per cent of the Internet "population", this could prove to be quite useful

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

As they say.. SMART A$$ You had to have a crack at it.. didn't you ??