[theforum] Session IDs in URLs

[Martin Burns]

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On 3 Mar 2005, at 16:07, Morgan Kelsey wrote:

> - also, is there any reason we're honking a big old php session id on 
> to the url when
> cookies are turned off? this is REALLY bad for search spiders (they're 
> gonna index
> those links with the session url too, since spiders don't eat cookies)

It's probably of interest to all to note that non-cookie users now 
don't get a PHP Session ID on teo URLs. Thanks to Mike for fixing that.

Incidentally, although Google doesn't seem to have picked this up yet, 
it still seems to have indexed the site rather well, without appending 
the Session ID to the page URL:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=javascript+site%3Atest.evolt.org
None of the URLs cited by Google have the session ID on, but when you 
look at any of the cached pages, the ID is on all the links.

Cheers
Martin

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