[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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