[opencms-dev] search engines and static vs. dynamic contents

[Code Create, Bernd Wolfsegger]

On Tuesday, 15. November 2005 14:13, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > How should the search engine get to know that the content is generated
> > dynamically ??
> > It just makes requests to html pages and follows links on these pages. I
> > don't
>
> I'm not quite sure of how robots search. In the first place they
> follow a links in pages. But don't they also descend recursively
> in the filesystem (when being allowed to do so)? Or am I totally off here
> :)?

Well, any experts here? :)

I don't think that a robot can do more than make http requests etc.. (Anything 
else would be a security case) And that is really something different from 
accessing the servers file system.

You have a problem with such dynamically generated sites, where you have a 
"controller" JSP (always the same Url) an thousands of get Parameter to 
determine which content to show.
But thats not the case with OpenCms. The Urls look exactly like static content 
Urls. No difference.

>
> > think that search engines have the capability to test if a file is
> > resident in the filesystem or not.
> > You can't do this with a normal Browser too.
>
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de

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