Session Id's - want to remove them.

[chetas]

Hi, i have anb online store where the the links used to be:
www.example.co.uk/scategory.php?n=85 so after taking some advice i used httaccess and changed all the links from relative to direct so now the urls look like this:
www.example.co.uk/scategory/85

So i was expecting it to all be indexed- however when i did a google cache view, all the urls ended in
?PHPSESSID=d4dce1ca6a7f31add154315609556e3b
and google stopped indexing further down.

How do i remove the sessions w/o making sweeping changes to my cart system?

I've found this so far:
Code:
if (
(stristr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'Googlebot')) ¦¦ (stristr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS'HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'[e-mail];')) ¦¦
(stristr($HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'K2'))) {
//Don't start a session
}

but how do i add it and how do i include a list of all search bots and not just two...

Thanks for any help!

[edited by: pageoneresults at 2:59 pm (utc) on Mar. 11, 2004]
[edit reason] Examplified URI [/edit]

[coopster]

You may want to consider mod_rewrite again rather than PHP. Google WebmasterWorld for "apache session id" and it will turn up quite a few resources.

[chetas]

search on apache session id didnt throw up anything concrete, can you point me to an article or something please?

Also wouldnt this topic be better off in ur .htaccess /apache section instead being moved to the php one...

Ta!

[coopster]

Will any of these address your issue?

mod_rewrite for removing session ids [webmasterworld.com]
Help: rewriterule for session id needed [webmasterworld.com]
How to check whether it's a spider or not via PHP? [webmasterworld.com]
How to deal with cart's session Id's [webmasterworld.com]