RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Bill Conlon
with no return" >>within a class file? If so, will it execute the rest of the calling taf >>file? >> >>Steve >> >>-Original Message- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:45 AM >>T

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread webdude
CTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) I believe that "redirect" is the important phrase here. Are you talking an actual meta redirect? or a branch. If using a meta redirect, the robot will only fo

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Fogelson, Steve
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) I believe that "redirect" is the important phrase here. Are you talking an actual meta redirect? or a branch. If using a meta redirect, the robot will only follow a 301 permanent redirect, otherwise it stops

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread webdude
directed to if they don't have a cookie or userid, wouldn't that stop the spider from crawling the site? Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affil

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread webdude
Never tried this, but remember, robots will only craw actual a href urls. So if you have a url that is anywhere on the site, it is possible for the robot to crawl. I don't see why this would not work. would he be able to arguments to that file like the following? Disallow: MightNotCrawl.taf?

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Fogelson, Steve
8, 2004 9:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) Fogelson, Steve wrote: >Windows 2003 Web Edition IIS 6.0, R:Tango 5, Oterro 3.0 > >I would like to suggest that visitors login to a site when they first enter >it. Presently I check

RE: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Fogelson, Steve
March 18, 2004 9:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT) Create a robots.txt file and add it to the top of the heiarchy of the site. In the robots.txt file, add the following User-agent: * Disallow: DoNotCrawlThisPage.taf The DoNotCrawlThisPa

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread John McGowan
would he be able to arguments to that file like the following? Disallow: MightNotCrawl.taf?status=SuggestLogin /John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Create a robots.txt file and add it to the top of the heiarchy of the site. In the robots.txt file, add the following User-agent: * Disallow: DoNot

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread Bill Conlon
Regarding spiders, you can validate <@CGIPARAM NAME="USER_AGENT"> against a list of acceptable bots, though this is easily spoofed. Unless you're using https, subsequent HTTP requests will present the cookies in clear text. (Same is true for HTTP authentication). But since it's acceptable for

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread webdude
Create a robots.txt file and add it to the top of the heiarchy of the site. In the robots.txt file, add the following User-agent: * Disallow: DoNotCrawlThisPage.taf The DoNotCrawlThisPage.taf is the page you do not want robots to crawl. Hope this helps Fogelson, Steve wrote: Windows 2003

Re: Witango-Talk: Login/Affiliates/Cookies/Spiders (OT)

2004-03-18 Thread John McGowan
Fogelson, Steve wrote: Windows 2003 Web Edition IIS 6.0, R:Tango 5, Oterro 3.0 I would like to suggest that visitors login to a site when they first enter it. Presently I check to see if they have a user scoped userid. If they don't I set it to the session cookie userreference. So I was thinkin