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[nycphp-talk] Robot Sessions

David Sklar sklar at sklar.com
Mon Mar 29 17:41:08 EST 2004


> Is there a (good) way to allow robots to navigate your site, but not 
> issue them a session?

Short but not the world's most efficient way to do it:

if (! preg_match('/googlebot/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
     session_start();
}

You probably want to expand that regex to account for all the robots you 
know/care about.

David






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