Great point. I should probably use a branch. Can you "branch with no return" within 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 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 that every page in my site executes, so implementation >should be pretty easy. > >So every time a visitor selects a page, I check for a userid. If not present >I would check for a cookie. If neither, I would redirect to the "login >benefits" page. > >If I don't allow spiders to crawl this page (with robots.txt) and this is >the page the visitor is redirected to if they don't have 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 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 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 have a user id, I would redirect to a page that would list >>>benefits of signing in and provide login input fields. >>>I also want to create a persistent cookie to place on their computer that >>>would contain an affiliate code if the visitor was referred to the site by >>>an affiliate. So I could check to see if they have this cookie first. If >>>they have a cookie, it would be nice to log them in as well as read their >>>affiliate code. But I don't know how to transmit encrypted account and >>>password info in the form of a cookie first to their computer and then at >a >>>later date (subsequent visits) back to my site. Any comments? >>> >>>I also have a challenge when a search engine spider hits the site. I don't >>>want to redirect the spider to a "login suggestion" page. Any suggestions >on >>>how to determine if the visitor is a spider? Maybe use <@CGIPARAM>. I >>>noticed when looking at my IIS logs, that there are entries like the >>>following: >>> >>Why do you care if the spider indexes your login suggestion page. >>Assuming that page still has links to the content that you want to >>be indexed by the spider, I don't see any harm in it indexing that >>suggestion page. And if you didn't want it to index that page, >>there might even be an http heaeder or <META> tag that you could add >>to just that login suggestion page that would cause the bot to not >>index it. >> >>To answer your question below, you can get to that data through the >>@CGIPARAM tag. It's the "USER_AGENT" >> >>/John >> >>>66.196.93.29 HTTP/1.0 >>>YahooSeeker/1.1+(compatible;+Mozilla+4.0;+MSIE+5.5;+http://help.yahoo.com / >he >>>lp/us/shop/merchant/) >>>64.68.82.55 HTTP/1.0 Googlebot/2.1+(+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html) >>>66.196.65.40 HTTP/1.0 >>>Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Yahoo!+Slurp;+http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysea r >ch >>>/slurp) >>> >>>Is this accessible by Witango? Is it consistent? Is it useful? >>> >>>Thanks for any ideas. >>>Steve Fogelson >>>Internet Commerce Solutions >>>________________________________________________________________________ >>>TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >>> >>> >> >>________________________________________________________________________ >>TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > >-- >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf -- ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
