Posted by Ale on 08/04/05 13:55

ok... I see that the most diffuse opinion is this... therefore I guess is
the correct one :)
At this point I will try to migrate the website from one structure to the
other.

However, I still did not get two points:
1) The ASP session variable reside on the memory of the server and not in a
cookie. Thus, the browser, or in this case the bot, does not have to be
cookie enabled. All happen at the server side. Therefore, when a bot visit
my index.asp, set the session variable (at the server side) flagged. Then,
here can happen a problem. When explorer (even not cookie enabled) access a
website, it active a session on the server side till it goes in time-out, or
the browser is closed. When a crawler access my index.asp activate this
session, but all work only and only if the same bot proceed in the indexing.
If crawler, once reached the index.asp start to crawl the website with
multiple bots my approach does not work
2) The ASP response.redirect it is interpreted server side... thus, the bot
does not see it and see only the page that the server send to it...
Why it should not work with a bot, if this happen server-side?

Ok... let me remind that in my index.asp I have a frameset. But I use also
the noframe tag which it is supported by bots. There I generate the sitemap.
Thanks to this discussion I found a problem (see point 1). I am going to
abandon the session variable for the bots in the case multiple bot are used.
Each link in the sitemap will post the target page a variable (posting
should be supported by bots) which will stop the reframing of the website...
Those links should be indexed, but when used from browser, not passing
through the index.asp (here the session variable works for sure) the single
page will redirect to the framed versions...

I think could work...

Thanks

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