> > do anything that any HTTP client can do, and it can't do
> > things that HTTP doesn't allow. So, to answer a question
> > like this, all you have to do is ask "can I do that with
> > a browser". If yes, then it can be done with a spider, and
> > if no, it can't.
>
> I don't remember the specifics Dave, but if I'm not mistaken,
> you said before that a spider could _not_ read a session var.
That's correct. Neither can a browser. All a browser can do is send
identifying tokens like cookies or URL variables back to the server, which
can then read Session variables and use them within the program that
generates the response to the browser's request.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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