https javascript and firefox

Question

Hi all,

I have some javascript which calls some php functions to track webstats (piwik.org)

Everything works fine on http sites, from every browser it is all tracked

I have one site that is https - it will track visits from ie, but not from Firefox or Chrome

Does anyone know of anything I need to do or set or use to make it work on an https site?

Here is the code that goes in the html - please let me know if you need anything else:

<!-- Piwik -->
<!--"http://webstats.veritythree.com";--&gt;
<script type="text/javascript">
var pkBaseURL = "https://mysite/Webstats/";
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + pkBaseURL + "piwik.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script><script type="text/javascript">
try {
var piwikTracker = Piwik.getTracker(pkBaseURL + "piwik.php", 6);
piwikTracker.trackPageView();
piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking();
} catch( err ) {}
</script>
<!-- End Piwik Tag -->

The piwik.js is pretty large but I don't know if it will help so I will refrain from posting it for now...

I tried replacing their piwik.php with a simple file of my own that just writes a text file - this works from IE, from Firefox and Chrome it doesn't even create the file

$myFile = "testFile.txt";
$fh = fopen($myFile, 'w') or die("can't open file");
$stringData = "V3 Developer\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
$stringData = "Testing PHP\n";
fwrite($fh, $stringData);
fclose($fh);

Thanks for any help on this one!

Answer 1

This sounds like XSS prevention. When your javascript is pointing to the secure url, are you also viewing the page through the secure url?