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    copied!<p>I'm trying to add Google Analytics tracking to my C++/Qt desktop application. To do that, I'm making a http GET to <code>http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif</code> as specified here: <a href="http://automateeverything.tumblr.com/post/20500736298/google-analytics-without-javascript-or-cookies" rel="nofollow">http://automateeverything.tumblr.com/post/20500736298/google-analytics-without-javascript-or-cookies</a></p> <p>My URL looks like:</p> <pre><code>http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmwv=5.2.5&amp;utmac=UA-XXXXXXXX-1&amp;utmhn=prot-on.com&amp;utms=1&amp;utmn=1763710005&amp;utmcc=__utma%3D265465294.163654595.1362420921.1362420921.1362420921.1%3B&amp;utmp=%2Freallyallheaders.html&amp;utmcs=-&amp;utmr=-&amp;utmip=127.0.0.1&amp;utmul=es-es&amp;utmfl=-&amp;utmje=-&amp;utmsr=1920x1080&amp;utmhid=957274494 </code></pre> <p>And this is my source code:</p> <pre><code>qint64 currentTimestamp = QDateTime::currentMSecsSinceEpoch()/1000; if (this-&gt;timeOfFirstVisit == 0) this-&gt;timeOfFirstVisit = currentTimestamp; if (this-&gt;timeOfPreviousVisit == 0) this-&gt;timeOfPreviousVisit = currentTimestamp; QString googleAnalyticsRequestUrl; QTextStream(&amp;googleAnalyticsRequestUrl) &lt;&lt; "http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif" &lt;&lt; "?utmwv=5.2.5" &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmac=" &lt;&lt; TRACKING_ID &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmhn=" &lt;&lt; HOST_NAME &lt;&lt; "&amp;utms=" &lt;&lt; this-&gt;sessionNumberOfQueries &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmn=" &lt;&lt; QString::number(qrand()) //this-&gt;generateRandomUTMN() &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmcc=__utma%3D" &lt;&lt; this-&gt;domainHash &lt;&lt; "." &lt;&lt; this-&gt;sessionId &lt;&lt; "." &lt;&lt; this-&gt;timeOfFirstVisit &lt;&lt; "." &lt;&lt; this-&gt;timeOfPreviousVisit &lt;&lt; "." &lt;&lt; currentTimestamp &lt;&lt; ".1%3B" &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmp=" &lt;&lt; QString(QUrl::toPercentEncoding(pageUrl)) &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmcs=-" &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmr=-" &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmip=127.0.0.1" &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmul=" + QLocale::system().name().toLower().replace("_", "-") &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmfl=-" &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmje=-" &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmsr=" + QString::number(QApplication::desktop()-&gt;screenGeometry().width()) + "x" + QString::number(QApplication::desktop()-&gt;screenGeometry().height()) &lt;&lt; "&amp;utmhid=" + QString::number(qrand()); this-&gt;timeOfPreviousVisit = currentTimestamp; this-&gt;updateSessionNumberOfQueries(); qDebug() &lt;&lt; "Sending Google Analytics request: " &lt;&lt; googleAnalyticsRequestUrl; // Send a http GET request to the created URL QNetworkAccessManager *manager = new QNetworkAccessManager(); connect(manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply *)),this, SLOT(googleAnalyticsRequestReceived(QNetworkReply *))); connect(manager, SIGNAL(finished(QNetworkReply *)),manager, SLOT(deleteLater())); QUrl requestUrl(googleAnalyticsRequestUrl); QNetworkRequest request(requestUrl); // I see this headers with Firebug, but I think that they are not necessary request.setRawHeader("Host", "www.google-analytics.com"); request.setRawHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0"); request.setRawHeader("X-Forwarded-For", "127.0.0.1"); request.setRawHeader("Connection", "close"); manager-&gt;get(request); </code></pre> <p>But my page visits never appears in my Google Analytics page... Can you say me if I'm making something bad please?</p>
 

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