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


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> *From:* Scott Battaglia [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* 05 April 2009 16:39
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [cas-user] CAS issues
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> 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
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> 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?
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> Many thanks for your help.
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