> cookie, which one if any can be read by a spider somehow?
>
> I'm not talking about a spider reading the page, I'm talking
> about a spider reading the request, headers or something to
> retrieve the values of cookies and sessions if thats possible.
>From a web server's perspective, spiders are just like any other HTTP
client. From the spider's perspective, if it's been written to handle
cookies, it can certainly read them, just like any other HTTP client.
When a spider visits your application, if that spider returns the cookies
that your server sends to it, your application will be able to store
corresponding Session variables for that spider.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
phone: 202-797-5496
fax: 202-797-5444
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