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Strange Type of Arguement Being added to my urls
Old 01-04-2009, 05:18 PM Strange Type of Arguement Being added to my urls
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Sorry if this is the wrong forum but i just couldnt see where to post it. I apologise in advance if it is.

I'm trying to make up a site map. the online sitemap tools and also Gsitecrawler are displaying links to pages on my site and on these urls they are adding a phrase on the end of them

PHP Code:
/scottish-football-league
should just be-
/scottish-football-league

Can anyone put my mind at rest that this is just something a sitemap maker does or could it possibly be more sinister? the reason i ask is because the reason i am redoing my sitemap is because some hacker tried to extort money from me and commited 2 ddos attacks on my serve rin the past 2 days. My website has been down for 90% of 2009. It isnt related is it?

thanks and regards

reg


edit: sorry it's taking the code at the end out. you will be able to see the extra bit of the url undelrined in red here



thanks

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Old 01-04-2009, 08:58 PM Re: Strange Type of Arguement Being added to my urls
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It looks like a session ID.
That thing is usually carried in URLS if the server side language cannot use a cookie.

The session is there to preserves information across all the pages.
It usually stores this id in a cookie, but if the browser/client don't store cookies, then the session is lost.
Thus, the session id is transferred by automatically adding the session id in the url, as a GET parameter.

What I see, going on your site, is that the first link I click have this information, meaning that the site put it if it don't find a cookie, and try to put this value in a cookie.
The second page I load, the id is gone, meaning that as the cookie is there, the site don't see the necessity to add the id in the url.

Therefore, this parameter you see is there because the crawler don't stores cookies, and it's a way of the web site to get around this limitation.
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