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HTTP Referrer

The Referrer-Policy HTTP header controls how much referrer information (sent via the Referer header) should be included with requests.
Read more at developer.mozilla.org
Iris uses the Shopify's goreferrer package to expose the Context.GetReferrer() method.
The GetReferrer method extracts and returns the information from the "Referer" (or "Referrer") header and url query parameter as specified in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy.
GetReferrer() Referrer
Which Referrer looks like that:
type Referrer struct {
Type ReferrerType
Label string
URL string
Subdomain string
Domain string
Tld string
Path string
Query string
GoogleType ReferrerGoogleSearchType
}
The ReferrerType is the enum for a Referrer.Type value (indirect, direct, email, search, social). The available types are:
ReferrerInvalid
ReferrerIndirect
ReferrerDirect
ReferrerEmail
ReferrerSearch
ReferrerSocial
The GoogleType can be one of those:
ReferrerNotGoogleSearch
ReferrerGoogleOrganicSearch
ReferrerGoogleAdwords

Example

package main
import "github.com/kataras/iris/v12"
func main() {
app := iris.New()
app.Get("/", func(ctx iris.Context) {
r := ctx.GetReferrer()
switch r.Type {
case iris.ReferrerSearch:
ctx.Writef("Search %s: %s\n", r.Label, r.Query)
ctx.Writef("Google: %s\n", r.GoogleType)
case iris.ReferrerSocial:
ctx.Writef("Social %s\n", r.Label)
case iris.ReferrerIndirect:
ctx.Writef("Indirect: %s\n", r.URL)
}
})
app.Listen(":8080")
}
How to curl:
curl http://localhost:8080?\
referrer=https://twitter.com/Xinterio/status/1023566830974251008
curl http://localhost:8080?\
referrer=https://www.google.com/search?q=Top+6+golang+web+frameworks\
&oq=Top+6+golang+web+frameworks