Variant for use in browsers

[codefromthecrypt]

From @virusdave

I want to get a whole-system tracing tree that is rooted in a client's action on a web page. While there is a zipkin-js project, this appears to be a server-side node.js library. Is there a canonical client-side JS library that one would use to do things like 'start a new trace', 'annotate trace with browser info', 'send trace data to a specific collector', etc?

[eirslett]

I think we should be able to refactor the code base a little bit, so you can pass in a context API as a constructor argument instead of hard-coding to CLS. That would make it more universal. We could e.g. use AngularJS Zones for the browser part.

We need to build a zipkin-transport-http first, since I think http is the only viable option for sending trace data from the browser.

There are also some other problems, like how to protect zipkin-server from potentially malicious requests, if it's exposed to the wide Internet?

[codefromthecrypt]

There are also some other problems, like how to protect zipkin-server from potentially malicious requests, if it's exposed to the wide Internet?

good point in general, though it isn't necessarily something we need to address at the same time since there's a use case for tracing internal or otherwise vpn'd apps. wanna open an issue in zipkin-java? we can start collecting practice.