[ic] area expansion and session id - Solved

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Ron Phipps)]

> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
[mailto:interchange-
> users-admin@interchange.redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ron Phipps
> 
> We are using a third party search engine to crawl and index our
website.
> We have written rewrite rules to handle the session id so that if the
> engine crawls with multiple instances the resulting url's are seen as
> the same url and that way the same page does not show up more then
once
> in the index.
> 
> What we found was that if a browser enters the site without cookies
> enabled (like a web crawler does) then all the url's expand with the
> session id as the cgi parameter 'id'.  It looks like this:
> /page.html?id=BqBPMISu, however on other pages the session id is
passed
> as mv_session_id in a form parameter and appears like this:
> /page.html?mv_session_id= BqBPMISu.
> 
> Is it possible to force all of the urls to be generated using the
> mv_session_id cgi parameter?  This way we can have one rewrite rule to
> handle the session id's and we do not have to handle the case where
one
> page is generated as id and the other is generated with mv_session_id.
> Thanks!
> 
> -Ron

Please ignore this post, thanks.

-Ron