Bots ignoring Session IDs

How to set Session IDs to ignore bots

[chavezr]

Can anyone give me any tips to set session IDs to ignore bots?

I need to continue using them, but want to set them to ignore bots crawling the site.

Any tips, suggestions or resources would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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[edited by: engine at 5:08 pm (utc) on Oct. 27, 2003]
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[BlueSky]

You need to mod the script to test for the user agent and not serve a session id for bots. There are literally hundreds maybe even thousands of these things crawling around. So, I recommend you limit testing to say the large search engines and/or those which frequent your site.

Not sure what language your script is in. If it's written in PHP, you can grab the UA string by using: $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']. Then just use a string function to check whether that UA contains one of the bots in your list. If it does, don't serve it a session id. Some scripts are written so they won't work without a session. Hopefully, yours isn't like that.

[mipapage]

If yer using PHP, Nick_w Wrote something nice here [webmasterworld.com].