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[bigbob2]

I have a contribution installed which stores all the search results from customers. I have been looking over them and there are thousands of searches that have been performed for entries that look like the following. Some times there are many of the same entry, but most have different strings of numbers and letters:

voucher?osCsid=5b17998681471a5b0964bf3a43646db3
voucher?osCsid=987900c1f1c3df7133a6b8df96e93a4c
voucher?osCsid=a511471d2c8e8762c6c7774b5831985b
voucher?osCsid=db32768379b5a29eddeabfe1ef229eb7

What would this be? Obviously customers are not typing this in, so it is either a robot or something automated.

Any thoughts?

Kev

Edited by bigbob2, 13 January 2012, 07:21.

[geoffreywalton]

This is the "os Commerce Session ID" which is used to uniquely identify a person or bot visiting your shop.

Try this in google

site:forums.oscommerce.com session id

HTH

G

[germ]

When browsing your store the session ID should disappear from the URL after only a few clicks.

If it doesn't you have something amiss.

The most common reason for it to linger endlessly is bad cookie settings in the config file.

[bigbob2]

But can you think how this would have come to be entered in to the search box?

Kev

[germ]

No one is typing it into the search box.

What is most likely happening is the shop is generating it and the code in the contribution is capturing it.

[bigbob2]

germ, on 14 January 2012, 15:25, said:

No one is typing it into the search box. What is most likely happening is the shop is generating it and the code in the contribution is capturing it.

Thanks Jim