Turn off JSESSIONID for google bots

I read somewhere that it is possible to turn off JSESSIONID generation in the URL for JSP webapps where the user agent matches a particular type. I would like to turn this off for the google bot but can't find any information.

We are running apache+tomcat+struts.

I've looked high and low including in the tomcat docs.

Any help appreciated! :-)

We have the same problem, our apache - tomcat server requires jsessionid. We don't pass the jsessionid through the URL to avoid duplicate content.. so the problem is that we have to resort to setting a cookie... search engines can't set cookies so we're screwed. What do we do?

Thanks!

see the code below for jsessionid issue for google bot

package net.jforum.context;

import net.jforum.util.preferences.ConfigKeys;

/**
* @author Marc Wick
* @version $Id: JForumContext.java,v 1.4 2006/09/09 21:32:37 rafaelsteil Exp $
*/
public class JForumContext implements ForumContext
{
private String contextPath;
private String servletExtension;
private RequestContext request;
private ResponseContext response;
private boolean isEncodingDisabled;
private boolean isBot;

public JForumContext(String contextPath, String servletExtension,
RequestContext request, ResponseContext response)
{
this.contextPath = contextPath;
this.servletExtension = servletExtension;
this.request = request;
this.response = response;

Boolean isBotObject = (Boolean) request.getAttribute(ConfigKeys.IS_BOT);
this.isBot = (isBotObject != null && isBotObject.booleanValue());

this.isEncodingDisabled = isBot;
}

public JForumContext(String contextPath, String servletExtension,
RequestContext request, ResponseContext response, boolean isEncodingDisabled)
{
this.contextPath = contextPath;
this.servletExtension = servletExtension;
this.request = request;
this.response = response;
this.isEncodingDisabled = isEncodingDisabled;

Boolean isBotObject = (Boolean) request.getAttribute(ConfigKeys.IS_BOT);
this.isBot = (isBotObject != null && isBotObject.booleanValue());
}

public boolean isBot()
{
return isBot;
}

public String encodeURL(String url)
{
return this.encodeURL(url, servletExtension);
}

public String encodeURL(String url, String extension)
{
String ucomplete = contextPath + url + extension;

if (isEncodingDisabled()) {
return ucomplete;
}

return response.encodeURL(ucomplete);
}

public boolean isEncodingDisabled()
{
return this.isEncodingDisabled;
}

public RequestContext getRequest()
{
return request;
}

public ResponseContext getResponse()
{
return response;
}
}

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