eliminating jsessionid, so Google/Alexa don't get confused

[Bryce Nesbitt <br...@obviously.com>]

I've searched and searched for a way to get rid of the sessionid in my
URL's from tomcat/struts.  What happens is that Google and other search
engines think that each new session is a unique version of the page,
frustrating their own caching.

I added <%@ page session="false" %> to the top of each page, but I still
see some session ID's in the logs.  How can I get tomcat to stop using
session ids everywhere?

Check http://gabrito.com/post/javas-seo-blunder-jsessionid for a writeup
on this issue.
Here are some example crawls from a search engine that shows the engine
thinks that each new page is a unique URL:

193.47.80.51 - - [28/Nov/2006:16:05:36 -0800] "GET
/awards.do;jsessionid=68B86DFF8E4A8597B210531C3431965D HTTP/1.1" 200
17195 "-" "Exabot/3.0"
193.47.80.51 - - [28/Nov/2006:16:17:30 -0800] "GET
/awards.do;jsessionid=0621414681C92E1A00A9428A7800AC30 HTTP/1.1" 200
17195 "-" "Exabot/3.0"
193.47.80.51 - - [28/Nov/2006:17:00:36 -0800] "GET
/awards.do;jsessionid=0079FCD91ED8E5B86902228D285CCEEF HTTP/1.1" 200
17195 "-" "Exabot/3.0"
193.47.80.51 - - [28/Nov/2006:20:41:50 -0800] "GET
/awards.do;jsessionid=DE9B61384D3D75DE9EB38A21F066E433 HTTP/1.1" 200
17195 "-" "Exabot/3.0"
193.47.80.51 - - [28/Nov/2006:21:25:06 -0800] "GET
/awards.do;jsessionid=452B2A8E9798E58B89A61FA11E4F2EF6 HTTP/1.1" 200
17195 "-" "Exabot/3.0"
193.47.80.51 - - [28/Nov/2006:23:55:55 -0800] "GET
/awards.do;jsessionid=051ED83F9A0970854DB4DDF315EB45F0 HTTP/1.1" 200
17195 "-" "Exabot/3.0"

These are from site http://www.citycarshare.org/


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