[ic] does mv_tmp_session work?

Grant interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Nov 7 00:01:01 2002


>Grant [listbox@email.com] wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know if mv_tmp_session is functional in the current build of
>> 4.9?  It is supposed to keep ? and & out of all links when it is
>set.  This
>> should be very useful for search engines indexing.
>>
>The mv_tmp_session works in 4.9, and does keep args such as mv_session_id
>and mv_pc out of generated URIs, but isn't a lot of use for search
>engine use.  Consider the following link:
>
>    http://www.domain.com/foo/bar.html?mv_tmp_session=1
>
>It still has a '?' in there.
>
>What you really need, in 4.9, are the new RobotUI, RobotIP and RobotHost
>global directives.  These will recognise incoming search engine spiders
>by User Agent, IP address and Hostname, and will automatically set the
>mv_tmp_session.  The temporary session setting will, in turn, ensure
>that generated links don't have mv_session_id and mv_pc arguments in
>the URI.
>
>I hope some of that made sense.

Thanks a lot for your response, Kevin.  Are you saying that when
mv_tmp_session is set via RobotUI, RobotIP, or RobotHost, it does not show
up in the URL?  That would be ideal as the robots would then be able to
follow the links with no problem.

- Grant