I think you're being overeager here. There is no good reason for
disallowing normal users with cookies disabled to not use URL rewriting.
Stripping JSESSIONID *only* for crawlers still sounds like the best
workaround/hack to me.Gili Nathan Hamblen wrote: > cowwoc wrote: >> 1) GoogleBot will hit the same page with different JSESSIONID each time. >> It'll think that these are different pages and lower your page rank >> because (from its point of view) your website contains different page >> URLs with the same content (looks like you're trying to trick it). > > I think the bot may be smarter than that, but still.. > >> [...] >> Maybe someone else has a better idea? > > It looks like Wicket is doing all the right things. I don't think it > should try too hard to avoid generating a session for bookmarkable links > cause the googlebot could always find those same links after it has > created a session elsewhere, muddying things just as much. > > Instead, search conscious sites (and what big site isn't?) should just > disable url rewriting in a WebRequest subclass. Users without cookies, > and Google, will still be able to browse the non-interactive parts of > the site through bookmarkable urls. You'd have to hack essential > (search) forms, but that's no harder than doing the same form in a > caveman framework. Then you'd customize the session expired page to > explain that cookies are required for interactivity. > > That's how pretty much every shopping site, etc works already. Wicket > (via J2EE) is just being too nice to cookieless users, and making its > nice-to-have sessions conspicuous in the process. > > Nathan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
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