How to track and display profile views on GitHub

Re:How to track and display profile views on GitHub by steventhedev on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:26AM (#23781270)

Which exact headers are being leaked by GitHub? Depending on what they leak, this could be something only useful for counting hits (if all they leak is the implicit time of the request), or for fully tracking users (if they leak Etags, original IPs, etc).

It's too bad the author removed the badge from their Github profile. It would be interesting to see the effect of this post on profile views.

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Re:How to track and display profile views on GitHub by zemnmez on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:04PM (#23781668)

Github proxies all image requests, like GMail as a security measure. The cache busting technique the author refers to only ensures the security proxy doesn’t cache the image data, which would prevent the counter going up

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Re:How to track and display profile views on GitHub by rushter on Thursday July 09, 2020 @11:42AM (#23781448)

Github does not send any extra information.

    "GET /counter.svg HTTP/1.1" 200 565 "-" "github-camo (62249a1c)"

I've reverted the badge.

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