Also, you should never need to let google index a page that has a sessionid. If google indexes a page of yours folks are going to come from a google search results to your page, without a session. Any page/jsp/servlet that you need a session id on should be in your robots.txt.
If your page is mysteriously making sessions consider replacing getSession() with getSession(false). That false means don't make a session if there isn't one. This is what RFC 1738 says about semicolons in HTTP URLs: Within the <path> and <searchpart> components, "/", ";", "?" are reserved. The "/" character may be used within HTTP to designate a hierarchical structure. I don't think that RFC 2616 adds much to these comments. On Wednesday 06 December 2006 5:53 pm, Simon Pink wrote: > Hi there, > > It is well noted by Google (and other search engines) that they do not like > session tracking info as part of the URL. This does include JSessionId, and > because Google visits your site as a cookieless user, every page indexed by > them includes JSessionId, this is bad for numerous reasons - but the main > reason is that Google may think you are cheating, as they are indexing the > same page multiple times and it adversely effects your ranking. > > It is annoying as Tomcat deals with the URL according to standards, It seems > to be everything else which doesn't. To be more precise, it is the ';' in > the URL which servers such as Apache, and search engines and spiders like > Google don't like much at all. By all rights Google should ignore the > session id but it doesn't. > > Anyway, how do I turn this cookie-less tracking off for Tomcat? I would > rather have better ranking (and not be banned) than have a minor percent of > customers not being able to use my site. Or is there another solution that I > have missed here? > > Kind Regards, > Simon. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Brian Caruso Programmer/Analyst Albert R. Mann Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
