session variables and google

my understanding is that google does not index pages generated from session
variables. Postdata can be very clumsy, so is there any alternative ?
regards,

- n

a href="page.asp?id=<%=session.id%>&amp;country=<%=s ession.country%
&amp;zip=<%=session.zip%>&amp;something=<%=session .something%>&amp;else=<%
=session.else%>&amp;horse=<%=session.horse%>&amp;c olor=<%=session.color%>A
horse of a different color</a

A search engine will probably have difficulties with something like the
above.

thanks. are there any disadvantages to using your first method ?

- n

In article <3f5f9233$0$189$4c56ba96 (AT) master (DOT) news.zetnet.net>, "N.
Drummond" <research (AT) cyanescent (DOT) co.uk> writes

my understanding is that google does not index pages generated from session
variables. Postdata can be very clumsy, so is there any alternative ?

Google will index pages where the URL contains a query string (because
it says it does). The last time I looked at this, some time ago now, I
got the impression that some other SEs would not.

With an Apache server, at least, a query string can be replaced by an
extended file path. E.g. - thinking in Perl CGI terms - you can replace

http://www.mysite.com/script.cgi?parms
with http://www.mysite.com/script.cgi/parms

and in the script have something like:

if ($ENV{'PATH_INFO'} =~ /^\/(.+)$/) {$pseudoquerystring = $1;}
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Philip Baker