http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/ will.thoughts.pop Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:12:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-62822 Will’s Web Miscellany » Blog Archive » Bot whipping Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:24:14 +0000 http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/#comment-62822 [...] finally got round to doing something about the Alexa crawler tampering with the cookies on the Recycling Group finder after Patrick Joyce commented on my previous [...] [...] finally got round to doing something about the Alexa crawler tampering with the cookies on the Recycling Group finder after Patrick Joyce commented on my previous [...]

]]> http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-62796 Patrick Joyce Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:16:53 +0000 http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/#comment-62796 I think that I've figured out what the immediate cause of the error is. It seems that Rails breaks up the session_id with new lines every 60 characters. Rails encodes this as %0A. Alexa seems to translate these new lines to \n. This is the only difference between the cookie that Alexa is returning and what we have in the session. I think that I’ve figured out what the immediate cause of the error is. It seems that Rails breaks up the session_id with new lines every 60 characters. Rails encodes this as %0A. Alexa seems to translate these new lines to \n. This is the only difference between the cookie that Alexa is returning and what we have in the session.

]]> http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-62764 Will Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:42:51 +0000 http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/#comment-62764 I emailed Alexa a few times and was ignored. It is probably possible to turn off sessions for the Alexa crawler only, but right now I just delete the exception notifier emails once per day. I emailed Alexa a few times and was ignored. It is probably possible to turn off sessions for the Alexa crawler only, but right now I just delete the exception notifier emails once per day.

]]> http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/comment-page-1/#comment-62761 Patrick Joyce Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:16:19 +0000 http://willj.net/blog/2008/03/19/bad-cookie/#comment-62761 I have a site that is getting 10-15 of these errors a day. Did you ever figure out a way to stop this from happening? Is it just that the alexa bot doesn't behave? I have a site that is getting 10-15 of these errors a day. Did you ever figure out a way to stop this from happening? Is it just that the alexa bot doesn’t behave?

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