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If you're using it, just use the bugfix and the updated spider_configure file.
You don't need this with MS2 and later cause it's intergrated in the cvs in an similar way.

There is a small Bug in the SpiderKiller
I initialized the spiderkiller too late.
I wrote in the installation guide that you should include the spider_configure.php at the end of the application_top.php.
This is unfoutunally too late, cause the links in the navigation bar are written allready.
The installationguide should have been called:
Quote:
- add in your application_top.php after
// include server parameters
require('includes/configure.php')
// Spiderkiller
require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'spider_configure.php');


To check if it's working properly you can enter your browser as spider in the spider_configure file and check if you find any URLs with a sessionid, or you go too:
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php
Sorry for the bug.
Henri

This is an enhanced spider config file ( has more spiders).
If you have installed the spider killer for MS1 and didn't change the spider_configure.php file, you just copy it over.

Small update:
- optimised the Spider array
- extended the explanations
- fixed typo in directory name

based on ideas from http://forums.oscommerce.com/

What does it do:
It t removes the SessionID if useragent is a spider (by a userdefined array) or the IP is in the userdefined banned IPs array

the check is done only once per page (and not a lot of times as in the sugestion of the threads)

If you are using cvs after 19.03.2003 you don't need it any more, cause a similar thing is implemented