On Tue, Sep 19, 2000, Steve Luzzi wrote:
> At the risk of this being off-topic, I was wondering
> if anyone knows whether the major Internet search
> engines/indexers (Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista, etc.) have
> the capability of indexing a site's data after it
> switches from a non-SSL to an SSL-enabled site?
>
FWIW, I have never seen evidence in access logs of
search engines visiting SSL HTTP servers I manage, but
routinely find entries from search engines visiting
non-SSL HTTP servers.
Part of the reason may be that https search engines
would need a sophisticated SSL client implementation
with client-side SSL session cacheing to do such
indexing. Otherwise they would probably get angry
complaints from https server operators about excessive
SSL session startup overhead caused by the indexing.
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CCSO - University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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