Session Info Added to URL

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

[email]pleury@celebrate-software.com[/email] (Celebrate) wrote in message news:<8bafcced.0310122018.878f0e@posting.google.co m>...

> I'm noticing that when my homepage first starts up, all the menu links
> to other pages have the session info appended to the URL. For example:
>
> href="products/product_list.php?PHPSESSID=45759f8aadee64cff2db657 48977ac67"
>
> This is done automatically as the original URL that I coded does not
> have the session information added to it.
>
> My first question is, is this normal behavior? The reason I'm
> concerned is I have been tracking the Google Bot's activity on our
> site and it hits the homepage and does not crawl the other pages. I'm
> concerned the added session info is throwing it off.

It's because in you PHP.ini file, you have session.use_trans_sid
= 1. See [url]http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php-src/php.ini-dist[/url]

>
> Should I be concerned

Not much except for security reasons. Look at your ini file's
session section for more stuff.

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got a nuclear bomb that can destroy the world 7 times. But...my
friend! Tell me! CAN YOU KILL A MAN TWICE??!!!!!" -- P.A.Sangma, Peace
loving Indian politician against India's step to go for a nuclear
test.
Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com

[Celebrate]

I'm noticing that when my homepage first starts up, all the menu links
to other pages have the session info appended to the URL. For example:

href="products/product_list.php?PHPSESSID=45759f8aadee64cff2db657 48977ac67"

This is done automatically as the original URL that I coded does not
have the session information added to it.

My first question is, is this normal behavior? The reason I'm
concerned is I have been tracking the Google Bot's activity on our
site and it hits the homepage and does not crawl the other pages. I'm
concerned the added session info is throwing it off.

Should I be concerned and if so, is there a way of preventing it from
appending the session info? I don't have the option of removing the
session_start() from the page because I must test for a session
variable.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated...

Paul

[Celebrate]

[email]ng4rrjanbiah@rediffmail.com[/email] (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) wrote in message news:<abc4d8b8.0310130427.1b6541de@posting.google. com>...

> [email]pleury@celebrate-software.com[/email] (Celebrate) wrote in message news:<8bafcced.0310122018.878f0e@posting.google.co m>...

> > I'm noticing that when my homepage first starts up, all the menu links
> > to other pages have the session info appended to the URL. For example:
> >
> > href="products/product_list.php?PHPSESSID=45759f8aadee64cff2db657 48977ac67"
> >
> > This is done automatically as the original URL that I coded does not
> > have the session information added to it.
> >
> > My first question is, is this normal behavior? The reason I'm
> > concerned is I have been tracking the Google Bot's activity on our
> > site and it hits the homepage and does not crawl the other pages. I'm
> > concerned the added session info is throwing it off.

>
> It's because in you PHP.ini file, you have session.use_trans_sid
> = 1. See [url]http://cvs.php.net/co.php/php-src/php.ini-dist[/url]
>

> >
> > Should I be concerned

>
> Not much except for security reasons. Look at your ini file's
> session section for more stuff.
>
> ---
> "US got a nuclear bomb that can destroy the world 13 times. Russia
> got a nuclear bomb that can destroy the world 7 times. But...my
> friend! Tell me! CAN YOU KILL A MAN TWICE??!!!!!" -- P.A.Sangma, Peace
> loving Indian politician against India's step to go for a nuclear
> test.
> Email: rrjanbiah-at-Y!com

Thanks for the help guys.

Paul