Hi Prasanna,

what kind of client are you using? The phpCAS client for example can cache the login status for gateway request and only retry every n-th call. This requires a cookie and a successfull redirect and cookies. Not sure that is possible for search engines. I think aside for a know bot list you could also grep grep for "robot", "spider" and "bot".

Cheers,

Joachim

Am 13.07.2010 17:44, schrieb prasanna h:
Hi Joachim,

I can use a robots.txt to allow or deny bots accessing portions of the
site. But about 80% of the site has data that needs to be accessed by
bots so as to not affect the search rank. Since I have enabled a CAS
gateway, every request is intercepted and redirected to cas. I need to
modify this so that requests from bots are not redirected to CAS.

Not sure if robots.txt is the way to go for what I'm trying to accomplish.

Prasanna.

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Joachim Fritschi
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hi,

    i guess a classic robots.txt should solve the issue for search engines.

    Cheers,

    Joachim

    Am 13.07.2010 11:18, schrieb prasanna h:

        Hi All,

        We use CAS as a gateway where each request is intercepted and
        redirected
        to CAS to check for a ticket. I noticed that the redirect to CAS
        happens
        for users as well as bots. Has anyone using CAS encountered this
        and if
        yes, can you let  me know the solution?

        Right now, I'm planning to check the user-agent against a list
        of common
        bots to determine whether to redirect to CAS.

        Looking forward to your thoughts as well.

        Prasanna

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