Out of curiosity, what are the primary business objectives for maintaining session on pages that are not user-specific? I typically have divided my site into two parts, a public part that doesn't maintain session and then an area behind a login form. Once you have logged in and identified yourself as a user, I keep track of the user through the whole site, public and private. But I don't generally see a need to maintain session info for a visitor unless they have done something user-specific, which would require a login. That eliminates bots right there.
Judah On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Cutter (CFRelated) <[email protected]> wrote: > We found this post from Ben Nadel to be extremely helpful in detecting > bot traffic. We have a highly customized statistical tracking system in > place for our web traffic, and wanted to accomplish two primary > objectives: a) not record page views of bots, and b) not maintain a > separate session on every page view (this is accomplished by identifying > the visit as a bot and setting the session timeout to 2 sec). We have > found Ben's work here to be highly effective. > > http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1083-ColdFusion-Session-Management-And-Spiders-Bots.htm > > Steve "Cutter" Blades > Adobe Certified Professional > Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer > > Co-Author of "Learning Ext JS" > http://www.packtpub.com/learning-ext-js/book > _____________________________ > http://blog.cutterscrossing.com > > Jim McAtee wrote: >> We keep our own page view stats in a database and want to avoid counting >> page views by visiting spyders. What's a good method for recognizing >> spyders without throwing away valid visitor page views? >> >> Something using cgi.user_agent, no doubt, but how can we keep a fairly >> comprehensive list up to date, and do we try to do exact string matches, >> partial matches, or what? >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318048 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
