[ic] area expansion and session id

[interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com (Mike Heins)]

Quoting Ron Phipps (rphipps@reliant-solutions.com):
> 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!

All you have to do is remove this line from etc/varnames:

    mv_session_id            id

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Mike Heins
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