___cliff rayman___ wrote:
> > I have an idea that may or may not be useful to you. If the user
> > comes to a random page without a valid cookie, you redirect them to
> > the front page. After that point, they have a valid cookie, and they
> > can access all the other pages. The robots would ge
>
>
> I have an idea that may or may not be useful to you. If the user
> comes to a random page without a valid cookie, you redirect them to
> the front page. After that point, they have a valid cookie, and they
> can access all the other pages. The robots would get redirected once,
> try al
Gerald Richter wrote:
> >
> > Having tested sessions (via Embperl and Apache::Session) I have
> > discovered an awful lot of rows in my database being created by robots.
> > My assumption is that the robots don't support cookies so every time
> > they hit a page on the site a new session is create
>
> Well there must be hundreds of these HTTP_USER_AGENT strings that you'd
have
> to filter out (wouldn't there?). It'd be quite difficult to try to
account
> for all of them.
>
Yes, of course...
> Also there's the issue of people that choose not to accept cookies, I
> wouldn't really want to
- Original Message -
From: "Gerald Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Michael Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: robots and sessions
> >
> > Having tested sessions (via
>
> Having tested sessions (via Embperl and Apache::Session) I have
> discovered an awful lot of rows in my database being created by robots.
> My assumption is that the robots don't support cookies so every time
> they hit a page on the site a new session is created in the database.
> When they t
Dear All,
Having tested sessions (via Embperl and Apache::Session) I have
discovered an awful lot of rows in my database being created by robots.
My assumption is that the robots don't support cookies so every time
they hit a page on the site a new session is created in the database.
When they tr
