They do, but they are usually one shot sessions. Basically, most bots do not
keep state. When it hits one page and gets a session, the next page it hits
is treated as if it was a new visit. In other words, a new session. The
amount of bots that keep state and have a single session were rare but are
becoming more prevalent. When I write bots, I always write them with state
management.
Bottom line is that if you have session turned on, every visitor will have a
session.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:14 AM, John M Bliss <bliss.j...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > It notes the more common bots (google) and assigns them a timeout of 2
> > seconds.
>
>
> I'm under the impression that bots (or just the Google bot?) don't "do"
> sessions at all, no?
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Michael Dinowitz <
> mdino...@houseoffusion.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I use this in my application.cfc right at top. It notes the more common
> > bots
> > (google) and assigns them a timeout of 2 seconds. You can use the same
> > logic
> > for whatever you want.
> >
> > IF
> >
> >
> (REFindNoCase('Slurp|Google|BecomeBot|msnbot|ZyBorg|RufusBot|EMonitor|java',
> > cgi.http_user_agent))
> > This.sessionTimeout=createtimespan(0,0,0,2);
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Les Mizzell <lesm...@bellsouth.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > In working out my Googlebot problem, I came across an idea of using
> > > HTTP_USER_AGENT to identify a bot, and then exclude it from an area or
> > > whatever (redirect it to www.disney.com or something... that's a joke)
> > > ... assuming it gets in despite the robots.txt file.
> > >
> > > So, this looks like a good starting point to modify from:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1083-ColdFusion-Session-Management-And-Spiders-Bots.htm
> > >
> > > I see how to deal with bots you can identify. Can anybody think of a
> way
> > > or have an example of how to figure out that it's a unidentifiable bot
> > > (rather than a real user with a browser) and redirect/whatever?
> > >
> > > Just asking....
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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