[ic] area expansion and session id

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

> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
[mailto:interchange-
> users-admin@interchange.redhat.com] On Behalf Of 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
> 

Thanks a lot Mike!  I'm not sure how I missed that in the docs when I
searched.  Take it easy.

-Ron