On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Mat Evans - theWorkshop < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Login isn't required to access the site, only to post in forums, etc. > Search engines should be able to crawl all of the site, but as I mentioned > cannot crawl anything at the moment as they get stuck in a redirect loop > because they do not accept cookies. If your site is sending someone to authenticate even when you don't want it to, then the site is configured wrong. CAS isn't in the picture until you redirect to CAS. You've possibly configured phpCAS to be too restrictive, I don't know. But the search engine should experience the same experience as an anonymous user. If you're relying on a cookie to determine that someone hasn't logged in, maybe that's the wrong thing to do. Again, I don't know (I haven't tried to use your forums ;-)). -Scott > > > Thanks > > _____ > > From: Scott Battaglia [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sun 05/04/2009 17:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [cas-user] CAS issues > > > > 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 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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
