Quoting John Young (suppressed): > Christopher Wenham wrote: > >On Friday 30 April 2004 01:07, John Young wrote: > > > >>What was the corresponding User Agent string from your web server > >>access log? Mine contained AskBar (the 'Ask' is what made it 'nsession'). > >> > >>Anyone know if AskBar can cause that behavior, or whether or not > >>AskBar in the UA should trigger no session, for that matter? > > > > > > It's matching against "Ask" in interchange.cfg's RobotUA section, so > >Interchange thinks it's a bot. I don't know what AskBar is yet, but I > >recently had to remove "Ask" from the RobotUA list because a customer > >wasn't able to check out -- without a session they couldn't put anything > >in their cart or log in to their account. > > > I believe this is AskBar: http://www.askbar.com/about.cfm > > I poorly worded my last question above -- was essentially asking > if anyone thought that Ask should remain in RobotUA. I'm following > your answer anyway, for now, and removing it. Thanks for mentioning > your experience, Chris. > > Along those same lines, I have removed spider*.proxy.aol.com from > RobotHost. I'm hoping RobotUA will keep any actual AOL spiders > known as such; however, I was seeing normal user sessions sometimes > using spider*.proxy.aol.com as caching/proxy servers. A single > visitor's traffic would look something like: > > 20031215 WYdRD8dV:aol.com cache-mtc-ah05.proxy.aol.com > 20031215 WYdRD8dV:aol.com cache-mtc-ak02.proxy.aol.com > 20031215 WYdRD8dV:aol.com cache-mtc-ab01.proxy.aol.com > 20031215 nsession:aol.com spider-ntc-td062.proxy.aol.com > 20031215 WYdRD8dV:aol.com cache-ntc-ad06.proxy.aol.com > 20031215 WYdRD8dV:aol.com cache-ntc-aa07.proxy.aol.com > > It was somewhat rare, and it looks like it would usually return to the > correct session (I'm guessing due to me including the session id in > hidden CGI variables)... but I removed it from RobotHost anyway to see > what happens. I think we are going to put a NotRobotUA directive in, that would allow: NotRobotUA googlebar,toolbar,askbar This probably won't go in until 5.3/5.4, though. -- Mike Heins Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting http://www.perusion.com/ phone +1.765.647.1295 tollfree 800-949-1889 <suppressed> Experience is what allows you to recognize a mistake the second time you make it. -- unknown _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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