@@@SESSIONID

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I do not know if I post the message to the right place.

I am now maintaining a big business site. Google crawler indexed hundreds of the pages of our web site. For every page URL, there is a string like "@@@SESSIONID=*********" appended at the end of the URL. @ represents a specific character

For example: for page
http://www.aa.com/products/12345.details
the indexed page becomes
http://www.aa.com/products/12345.details;@@@SESSIONID=########

My question is
What is @@@SESSIONID? and how does it work?Is it possible that it takes the snapshot of the sensitive information, such as user profile and account number?

Thanks in advance

Gregg Bolinger

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I *think* that is a .NET thing so I am not entirely sure. However, if it's anything like Java's jsessionid it's just a way of dealing with cookieless sessions so the server can remember what session data goes with what request.

Kevin manoj

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The only different I found is as follow:

The original page:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<script>var s_eVar22="true"</script>

The indexed page


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<script>var s_eVar22="false"</script>

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Has nothing to do with the clientside code. It has to do with the way your server is set up to handle sessions.

Eric

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I found out that s_eVar22 variable is for omniture measurement. So it has nothing to do with Google crawler.

My question still persists. Our web site did not process GEMSSIONID and there is a ";" between page URL and "GEMSSIONID" string.

I never see such strange URLs before.

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Originally posted by Kevin manoj:
I never see such strange URLs before.

You need to get out more.

Seriously though, what else are you wanting to know? Eric and I both told you it's how the server is handling sessions. If you want more detailed info than that I suggest you track down what server side technology the site is using and go from there. This site is for Java. I know Java. I don't that that's Java.

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