Posted by CAH on 04/04/06 09:57

> There was some discussion of forcing cookies, but the author didn't want
> to limit his users, so...
>
> How about doing something like this:
>
> // See if the user agent is Googlebot
> $isGoogle = stripos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'Googlebot');
>
> // If it is, use ini_set to only allow cookies for the session variable
> if ($isGoogle !== false) {
> ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', '1');
> }

That is a cool solution, but can one be sure that one can reconize
googlebot? And how about all the other robots? Could one make a "is not
robot test"?

Thanks for the help
Mads

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