Prevent spider sessions

[♥Vger]

Hi,

 

If I turn on the 'prevent spider sessions' feature I need to know first if the list of spiders in the file spiders.txt is the list of allowed spiders unaffected by turning on this feature, or if it is the list of known spiders to be disallowed under this feature. Does anyone know the answer to this question.

 

Many Thanks - Vger

[♥Vger]

Okay, so here I am going through the forum, trying to help others out with problems - and no one's posting an answer to this. Someone must have the answer, surely?

 

I have checked the wiki documentation and run various searches and can't find a simple answer to this simple question anywhere.

 

Vger

[nrlatsha]

I think you're right on you're second point, the list in spiders.txt is the one that doesn't give SID's out. I'll have to dig more to find out for sure though... :D

[nrlatsha]

App_top:

 

// start the session
 $session_started = false;
 if (SESSION_FORCE_COOKIE_USE == 'True') {
   tep_setcookie('www.nabcomdiamonds.com cookie', 'please_accept_for_session', time()+60*60*24*30, $cookie_path, $cookie_domain);

   if (isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['cookie_test'])) {
     tep_session_start();
  // user_tracking modifications 
  if (!$referer_url) { 
   $referer_url = $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER']; 
       if ($referer_url) { 
           tep_session_register('referer_url'); 
       } 
   }  
     $session_started = true;
   }
 } elseif (SESSION_BLOCK_SPIDERS == 'True') {
   $user_agent = strtolower(getenv('HTTP_USER_AGENT'));
   $spider_flag = false;

   if (tep_not_null($user_agent)) {
     $spiders = file(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'spiders.txt');

     for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($spiders); $i<$n; $i++) {
       if (tep_not_null($spiders[$i])) {
         if (is_integer(strpos($user_agent, trim($spiders[$i])))) {
           $spider_flag = true;
           break;
         }
       }
     }
   }

   if ($spider_flag == false) {
     tep_session_start();
     $session_started = true;
   }
 } else {
   tep_session_start();
   $session_started = true;
 }

 

 

If the spider session is true, it doesn't start a session id.

 

Sorry I couldn't provide line numbers for you...

 

HTH

Noel

[♥Vger]

Many Thanks !

 

Vger