dahamsta - 12:59 am on Sep 3, 2000 (gmt 0)

Generally speaking, when a search engine comes to a site, does it accept or ignore cookies?

In the case of a site I'm working on at the moment, if the engine doesn't accept cookies, it'll switch to passing a session id via GET, so how will the engine deal with that? I know that engines used to ignore URL's with QUERY_STRING's, because they used to get sucked into a loop with the end result of bringing both servers down, but what about now?

Do they ignore pages with QUERY_STRING's altogether? Do they follow the links anyway, but use some kind of intelligence to ignore loops? Or do they ignore the QUERY_STRING, and index the pages anyway? If it's the latter, they'll end up creating a load of useless session files on my machine, and I want to avoid that.

Any help appreciated. Ta.

adam