In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Salvador Ramirez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is my first post to this mail list. I have not found on the mail > list archives a discussion about if it is a good or bad idea for an > Internet robot the indexing of cgi programs (i.e. link with a '?' > character within). I think is not good because the main reason for which > the people make web sites with pages created on the moment of the "user > click" is that the information is very dynamic so probably that same > link in the near future will not have the same information or will not > exist. > I would like to hear your opinions... perhaps I am wrong.
For a simple robot, as well as for indexing sites where only script calls have question marks in URLs, this may be a reasonable decision. However, a URL with a question mark is not necessarily personalized or highly dynamic, and a URL without a question mark is not necessarily constant and static, so I would not recommend basing the indexing decision solely on the URL format. For example, Domino servers often reference pages which are generated dynamically from a Notes database but do not necessarily change very frequently with /database.nsf/somestring?OpenDocument Klaus Johannes Rusch -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atmedia.net/KlausRusch/
