How to remove SessionIDs, and how to form user-friendly URLs?

[vetant]

Hello everybody.

I'd like to ask a couple of questions please.

1. Does anyone know how to prohibit forum to add SessionID's to page urls for unregistered users?

2. Also could you tell me if there is a mod for VB v.3.7 that replaces standard url's with user friendly ones? If so, please give a link or the name.

Thank you

[RLShare]

In the search box up top search for 'url rewrite' ->all mods -> titles only

for #1, the vBulletin engine will only add the sessionid on browsers link where the visitor deactivate the cookies in their browser. anyway, the sessionid will not related to any access on your forum even if a guest use it, as it's a temporary detail related to one browser session and is changed once you logout or close your browser window... can't be reused by someone else... so this is just a bloat element in a url.

[Opserty]

Originally Posted by nexialys

so this is just a bloat element in a url.

Doesn't it prevent vBulletin from creating a new session every time a guest loads a page though? (Because it will use the sessionid to find the previous session the guest was using... and resuse that)

[vetant]

RLShare, thank you for the hint.

Nexialys, I was told that some search engines may index pages with sessionID's and thus the same page may be indexed several times with different html addresses, which is no good (can be treated as duplicated content)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Peope tell a lot of stories about search engines. Some are simply not true, and a lot might have been true years ago. SE's also improve their scripts and most SE's will see these as a single page.