When a CDN or edge platform already sits in front of your site, that is where the rule goes: one path, relayed to us, without touching the origin server. Two points matter here: caching, and what the platform can strip from the request.
Where: worker script
A Worker of a few lines: every request under your prefix is relayed to our host without following the redirect; everything else passes through. Add a route /your-prefix/* on your domain.
Where: VCL service configuration
A few lines in vcl_recv: Cookie and Authorization unset, the request sent to an origin declared on our host (TLS, SNI), and return(pass) so a redirect is never cached.
Where: Origins + Behaviors (console or IaC)
Two settings in the console: an origin on our host, HTTPS only, then a behavior on /your-prefix/* with the CachingDisabled cache policy and the AllViewerExceptHostHeader origin request policy. Without it, CloudFront forwards no User-Agent and no Sec-Fetch headers, and every click looks like a script.
Where: vercel.json
One rewrite in vercel.json, from your prefix to our host. Vercel cannot strip request headers.
Where: netlify.toml
One [[redirects]] rule in netlify.toml, with status 200 and force = true: a relay, not a redirect. Netlify cannot strip request headers.
A redirect served from a cache would send every visitor to the same affiliate. The tracking path is never cached.
Your visitors' cookies reach us with the request. We never read them, and we would rather write that down than stay quiet. A rule on your web server can strip them.
Yes: the rule only applies once deployed. Then run the check in the app.
The click sets a first-party cookie on your domain. Your server can bind a customer id to it, and that is the level that survives a change of device.
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