Question

Anonymous loggings + Web-crawlers

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Hi, I was wondering does a web-crawler take an anonymous session/login if your application has pages which can be accessed by anonymous users? Examples: google web crawlers search engine index bots etc etc.

asked 2014-07-07

Simon Martyr

2 answers

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Yes, any client that attempts to access your app without sending the proper session cookies (e.g. crawlers, scripts) will create a new session.

answered 2014-07-07

Bart Luijten

Simon Black · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-07

By default Mendix apps contain a robots.txt that prevents web crawlers from indexing your site. However if this robots.txt is changed to allow indexing then yes a session will be created.