On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Mat Evans - theWorkshop < [email protected]> wrote:
> Scott, Thanks for the reply. The thing is we do need this site to be > crawled by search engines, but as it stands they are unable to. Is this an > issue with all CAS enabled sites? > Its an issue with ANY site you put security in front of. Would you expect a site protected by Basic Auth to let a search engine in? If it an internal search engine you control, then you'll have to look at its documentation to see if there's a hook for providing credentials to sites being crawled. -Scott > > *From:* Scott Battaglia [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* 05 April 2009 16:39 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [cas-user] CAS issues > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Mat Evans - theWorkshop < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I hope this is the correct place to ask this? > > > > We have a CAS implemtated across a couple of websites. When you access one > of these sites, a cookie is set, then you're redirected (HTTP 302) to the > CAS server then redirected back to the site. Although this is invisible to a > user it causes problems with search engines. As they don't accept cookies > they get stuck in a loop or redirects. > > > If you have protected pages that you don't want crawled, why don't you use > a robots.txt file to make sure the search engine doesn't attempt to crawl > them? > > -Scott > > > > > > > My question is, is this problem an issue with CAS? or the php CAS library > we have used? or with how it has been implemented? > > > > Many thanks for your help. > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Mat Evans > theWorkshop > 28 Kenwood Park Road > Sheffield S7 1NF > > Tel: +44 (0)114 255 8222 > http://www.theworkshop.co.uk/ > > > Think like a tree. Do you need to print me? > > > The Workshop (Sheffield) Limited > Registered in England no: 2831514 VAT registration no: 591 0837 30 > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > > > > -- > > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > > > ------------------------------ > > Mat Evans > theWorkshop > 28 Kenwood Park Road > Sheffield S7 1NF > > Tel: +44 (0)114 255 8222 > www.theworkshop.co.uk > > *Think like a tree. Do you need to print me?* > > > The Workshop (Sheffield) Limited > Registered in England no: 2831514 VAT registration no: 591 0837 30 > > -- > You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see > http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user > > -- You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [email protected] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/cas-user
