PHP Session IDs and search engines
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 2:06 pm
Hi all. I'm having a problem and was hoping someone could offer some advice? I have a site that I've implemented a PHP Login Script on, to grant/restrict access to specific pages. It works well.
Since this, I've tried to implement 3 different search engines on my site.. and they all have done the same thing. They find result sets for the PHP session ID. I don't want these sessions to be indexed and can't seem to stop it from happening.
Example:
At http://bestof417.com/search.php, I type Dining in the Search Form.
I get 20+ results, but only about 6 or 7 are valid.
I get both, a valid returned result of:
http://bestof417.com/
and a path which shouldn't be reported as:
http://bestof417.com/index.php?PHPSESSI ... 5e2e645585
There is URL after URL of these PHPSESSID's.
Any idea why this might be happening?
Where are these session ID's stored? I can't find them anywhere.
Thx!
Sara
Since this, I've tried to implement 3 different search engines on my site.. and they all have done the same thing. They find result sets for the PHP session ID. I don't want these sessions to be indexed and can't seem to stop it from happening.
Example:
At http://bestof417.com/search.php, I type Dining in the Search Form.
I get 20+ results, but only about 6 or 7 are valid.
I get both, a valid returned result of:
http://bestof417.com/
and a path which shouldn't be reported as:
http://bestof417.com/index.php?PHPSESSI ... 5e2e645585
There is URL after URL of these PHPSESSID's.
Any idea why this might be happening?
Where are these session ID's stored? I can't find them anywhere.
Thx!
Sara