Re: [Phplib-users] robots and session-id's

[Joe S. <jo...@be...>]

This question seems to come up often.

My opinion has been to use cookie mode only and forget the get fallback.
Makes for ugly urls if someone is trying to bookmark the site, email the
link, or even write it down.

There was a discussion about this on the phpslash-user list recently.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=101346376400018&r=1&w=2
continued -
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=101346579700003&r=1&w=2

nathan suggest that future phplib versions should support php4's
transparent SID's.

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:46:19AM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> I thought session IDs timed out, so even is your site was indexed with
> session IDs they would/should not be valid when a search user comes back
> to the site and your software should generate a new ID.
>

This is my understanding also if everything is working properly.

> The idea of keeping the IP address is a good one also, because clearly a
> user coming in from a different host can not be the same session. It
> could be the same user, but the same session.
> 

IP's can come from pools for users.  AOL users in particular don't come
from one IP over the course of their visit.

Been discussed here before -

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1131438

Joe