Re: how to prevent session creation for search engines

The main problem is, we are using the built in session provider which
stores its sessions into a database.

I don't want to 'block' the search engines, but I don't want to create
a session record for each page request they are doing.

I believe I could use Request.Browser.Crawler to determine if the
request is done by a search engine. But I fail to see how to inform
the session provider to not create any session for that particular
request.

Thanks,
// Ryan

On 12/8/06, Adam Tuliper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Check user agent string - there are defined user agents for most search
> agents
> See http://www.useragentstring.com/
> http://www.pgts.com.au/pgtsj/pgtsj0208q.html (many others out there as well)
> This is also a trick that can be used to view content you don't have a
> session for..
> Ie change your user agent string in firefox (ie doesn't allow you - only to
> append to it unless you are using an http debugging proxy) and then view a
> previously indexed but protected page..
> So be sure to handle that technique as well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Heath
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 2:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] how to prevent session creation for search engines
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how we can prevent session creations for search
> engines on an asp.net 2.0 website?
> We use cookie based session, which obviously fails for search engines ...
>
> Thanks,
> // Ryan
>
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