----- Original Message ---- >From: brycenesbitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Rashmi Rubdi wrote: >> >>So the solution for Bryce would be to leave the session on on each JSP >> page, and omit the cookies attribute of <Context which defaults it to >> true. >>This should solve the problem of jsessionid for bots. >> From my observation search bots support cookies otherwise I would have the >>problem of jsessionid appended to URLs too. >>
>I'm just not getting it. >Can someone take a look at this site, and maybe give some insight? >http://www.citycarshare.org/howitworks.do I looked at your site with Xenu Link Sleuth - it's just like a search engine bot. There are a number of broken links but anyway, they have jsessionid attached to them, this is because you have set cookies to false! http://www.citycarshare.org/wn_0017.do;jsessionid=3ADBAD932904C77693CC14F5A13AA308 error code: 404 (not found), linked from page(s): http://www.citycarshare.org/whatsnew.do;jsessionid=3ADBAD932904C77693CC14F5A13AA308 http://www.citycarshare.org/wn_0017.do;jsessionid=5D59DBFAB3044078247B2AB780F9F342 error code: 404 (not found), linked from page(s): http://www.citycarshare.org/whatsnew.do http://www.citycarshare.org/wn_0018.do;jsessionid=3ADBAD932904C77693CC14F5A13AA308 error code: 404 (not found), linked from page(s): http://www.citycarshare.org/whatsnew.do;jsessionid=3ADBAD932904C77693CC14F5A13AA308 http://www.citycarshare.org/wn_0018.do;jsessionid=5D59DBFAB3044078247B2AB780F9F342 error code: 404 (not found), linked from page(s): http://www.citycarshare.org/whatsnew.do http://www.citycarshare.org/wn_0019.do;jsessionid=3ADBAD932904C77693CC14F5A13AA308 error code: 404 (not found), linked from page(s): http://www.citycarshare.org/whatsnew.do;jsessionid=3ADBAD932904C77693CC14F5A13AA308 http://www.citycarshare.org/wn_0019.do;jsessionid=5D59DBFAB3044078247B2AB780F9F342 error code: 404 (not found), linked from page(s): http://www.citycarshare.org/whatsnew.do >Or at 216.93.188.140 you can see a test intance which has the following >ROOT/META-INF/context.xml > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> > <Context path='/' cookies="false"> > </Context> You need to set cookies to true, set cookies to true and try it again with Xenu Link Sleuth. >I am 1000% certain that not all bots browse with cookies, at least not all >the time. There is *no harm* in giving this a try. You can't be sure until you try. Set cookies to true or leave off the cookies attrbute, then check with Xenu Link Sleuth or some other bot simulator. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]