- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 00:28:16 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 08:30p -0500 12/08/99, Stephanos Piperoglou wrote: >On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Rainer Jung wrote: > > > I have a small www-site, using a session-variable in each link. Now > > it is impossible for me to let any robot register the whole site. I > > thought about a method to tell the robot, to extract the > > session-variable out of all uri's. I don't know of any other ideas, > > to get something like this to work. > >You're using URLs to specify state. This is bad. There's nothing >specifically prohibiting you to do this, but if you want to specify >state you can either use > >(a) HTTP POST (for one-off jobs mostly) >(b) HTTP Cookies (better) Or do like I'm planning to do on a future site, which is to only use "personalized" URLs upon logging in. If you don't log in, then you get just the "plain" URLs (which will work for robots, etc.). -Walter
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