[gopher] gopher sessions for CGI's
Kim Holviala
kim at holviala.com
Wed May 30 09:16:14 UTC 2012
>> How do you prevent search engines from "stealing" a session? What I
>> mean is; when a search engine enters your site, it becomes for
>> example session number "123". Now every person who comes to your
>> site through the search engines also has the same session ID pretty
>> much breaking the whole thing....
>
> We can manage this by using "robots.txt" file to disallow "session" URLs.
But then the search engine won't index the site at all. The server
cannot know whether it's a search engine or a client making the
requests, so you cannot direct search engines to a non-session URI.
- Kim
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