-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mikolaj,
Back to the original question... Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: > As you may know url rewriting feature is not a nice thing when spiders > come to index your site - > http://gabrito.com/post/javas-seo-blunder-jsessionid. So, the problem is that your URLs contain ";jsessionid=...", right? When does that become a problem? That becomes a problem when google (or whomever) crawls your site on different days and sees the same content with "different" URLs. Well, I have a couple of thoughts about that. 1. A semi-colon is listed in the HTTP specification as being a valid delimiter, despite pretty much every major web server out there ignoring it and thinking that it's part of the path. This is partially the crawler's fault for not following the HTTP specification. The ";" character is not technically a valid URL character outside of it's role as a delimiter, just like "&" or "?". 2. If you strip-off the jsessionid argument for all of these URLs, you will end up with thousands of sessions being created for each URL requested by the google bot. Do you think that's a good idea? 3. If you don't want googlebot to get a session, why are you allocating one? If you need sessions to manage site navigation, then you cannot turn them off and have things work correctly... can you? 4. Consider instructing googlebot not to crawl certain portions of your site (those which require a session) by using a robots.txt file. Just my .02. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFcHDf9CaO5/Lv0PARAtp5AKCgPVdAXu80zADXifTx6AJOYfpupACfXcPb nEEqn4rpvDVatwSRf/XPScg= =Y5KA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
