I'm at an odd crossroads here. Up until now, I've kept my application
off-limits to search engines. I've used a couple of techniques found on Ben
Nadel's blog for giving them short sessions and such. Been working well.
With respect to human users, I've been VERY diligent about using
I'm at an odd crossroads here. Up until now, I've kept my application
off-limits to search engines. I've used a couple of techniques found on Ben
Nadel's blog for giving them short sessions and such. Been working well.
With respect to human users, I've been VERY diligent about using
info in all your URLs)
There are other pitfalls with placing the session IDs in every URL other
than bot traffic:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/172/tn_17255.html
~Brad
Original Message
Subject: Dealing With Spiders/Bots/Crawlers
From: Bob Hendren bhend...@listingware.com
Date: Wed
First, sorry for dual post earlier.
Second, not a stupid question about cookies, but just trying to deal with the
possibility that a user has cookies turned off. I'm using URLSessionFormat on
all of my links to pass their session info around so the system isn't
constantly treating them like
Be careful about setting all tokens to 1 if your Web site contains
sensitive information and if you are putting this info on a URL
string. What will happen is that every user that comes through via a
search engine will be considered the same user according to
ColdFusion, which is rather bad. If
just trying to deal with the possibility that a user has cookies turned off.
I see. Well I've pretty much said my opinion on the cookie thing, but
to reiterate, people not using cookies are such a minute percentage of
the web. Unfortunately, I can't find any recent numbers anywhere, but
I'm
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