Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Fogelson, Steve
Windows 2003 Web Edition IIS 6.0, R:Tango 5, Oterro 3.0 I would like to suggest that visitors login to a site when they first enter it. Presently I check to see if they have a user scoped userid. If they don't I set it to the session cookie userreference. So I was thinking that if they didn't

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread John McGowan
Fogelson, Steve wrote: Windows 2003 Web Edition IIS 6.0, R:Tango 5, Oterro 3.0 I would like to suggest that visitors login to a site when they first enter it. Presently I check to see if they have a user scoped userid. If they don't I set it to the session cookie userreference. So I was

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread webdude
Create a robots.txt file and add it to the top of the heiarchy of the site. In the robots.txt file, add the following User-agent: * Disallow: DoNotCrawlThisPage.taf The DoNotCrawlThisPage.taf is the page you do not want robots to crawl. Hope this helps Fogelson, Steve wrote: Windows

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Bill Conlon
Regarding spiders, you can validate @CGIPARAM NAME=USER_AGENT against a list of acceptable bots, though this is easily spoofed. Unless you're using https, subsequent HTTP requests will present the cookies in clear text. (Same is true for HTTP authentication). But since it's acceptable for

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread John McGowan
would he be able to arguments to that file like the following? Disallow: MightNotCrawl.taf?status=SuggestLogin /John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Create a robots.txt file and add it to the top of the heiarchy of the site. In the robots.txt file, add the following User-agent: * Disallow:

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Fogelson, Steve
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) Create a robots.txt file and add it to the top of the heiarchy of the site. In the robots.txt file, add the following User-agent: * Disallow: DoNotCrawlThisPage.taf The DoNotCrawlThisPage.taf is the page you do

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Fogelson, Steve
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) Fogelson, Steve wrote: Windows 2003 Web Edition IIS 6.0, R:Tango 5, Oterro 3.0 I would like to suggest that visitors login to a site when they first enter it. Presently I check to see if they have a user scoped

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread webdude
Never tried this, but remember, robots will only craw actual a href urls. So if you have a url that is a href=MightNotCrawl.taf?status=SuggestLogin anywhere on the site, it is possible for the robot to crawl. I don't see why this would not work. would he be able to arguments to that file like

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread webdude
a cookie or userid, wouldn't that stop the spider from crawling the site? Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) Create

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Fogelson, Steve
] Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) I believe that redirect is the important phrase here. Are you talking an actual meta redirect? or a branch. If using a meta redirect, the robot will only follow a 301 permanent redirect, otherwise it stops. I have a routine

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Bill Conlon
a class file? If so, will it execute the rest of the calling taf file? Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) I believe