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Search Engines and "?PHPSESSID=" results

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:55 am
by tsg
Hello all,

I see a lot of my sites pages results in some search engines with the ?PHPSESSID= at the end of the page. Is there any way to make it so when the search engine spiders, it omits the ?PHPSESSID=?

Thanks,
Tim

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:11 am
by trukfixer

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ini_set("session.use_trans_sid" ,"1");
http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php
php.net wrote: session.use_trans_sid boolean

session.use_trans_sid whether transparent sid support is enabled or not. Defaults to 0 (disabled).

Note: For PHP 4.1.2 or less, it is enabled by compiling with --enable-trans-sid. From PHP 4.2.0, trans-sid feature is always compiled.

URL based session management has additional security risks compared to cookie based session management. Users may send a URL that contains an active session ID to their friends by email or users may save a URL that contains a session ID to their bookmarks and access your site with the same session ID always, for example.

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:38 am
by tsg
Thanks!