Hello World
Googlebot and Site Redirects
At a first glance it seems like there is nothing on the web, that can hide from beeing indexed by Google. Not only html but
twelve(!) other filetypes are getting indexed at the moment.
But Google is much pickier as one could assume, whereas its reasons are evident and reasonable:
1. Redirects
Googlebot (Google's Spider) doesn't follow the "http/1.1 302 Found"
status code (resource temporarily moved). Instead you should use a
"http/1.1 301 Moved Permanently" header to make Google follow the
redirect.
To make the long story short: If you're using PHP to do the redirect (and many are using PHP these days) you should add the
status code header manually because PHP sends a 302 Found status code by default.
This stops Google and therefore is only usefull if your site is really under maintenance at the moment:
<?php
header('Location: http://www.foo.com/bar/');
?>
This makes Google follow the redirect and index the Site:
<?php
header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');
header('Location: http://www.foo.com/bar/');
?>
If you prefer to do the redirects within an .htaccess file (on Apache, of course), you could do it like this. Every Request to foo.com/ is redirected to foo.com/bar/:
#Redirect (this will result in a 301 permanently moved status code)
RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://www.foo.com/bar/
I expect it's faster and less resource intensive to set up an .htaccess file because there is no need to parse any php code at all. Though it won't matter in most cases anyway. (untested assumption)
2. Sessions
Google doesn't follow links with a session attached. If you've enabled session.use_trans_sid in your php.ini you should check if Google is requesting the page. If your site displays fine without the use of sessions simply don't start one if google is visiting. ;-)
<?php
// session is not started to serve google
if( stristr( $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'google') === false )
{
session_start();
}
?>
Add as many search engine bots as you like. A more sophisticated method (like regular expressions) is not needed here, but would of course work, too.
SpamPoison
It can be used to help reduce the problem of spam on the Internet in general, and at sites using SpamPoison in particular.
Each randomly generated website again generates random email addresses and content and links to its self with pseudo-hyperlinks, trapping badly engineered address harvesting web crawlers, and to fool them into adding enormous quantities of completely bogus e-mail addresses to the e-mail address databases of the spammers, thus polluting those databases so badly that they become essentially useless.
SpamPoison is a port of the Perl script 'Wpoison' by Ronald F. Guilmette.
The original Wpoison site seams to have disapeared. At least I can't find anything but broken links to the original wpoison script. Well, for more information on how to use the script, please download the zipped package below. The included install.txt has some instructions on how to set up your own spam-harvester trap.
SpamPoison Demo
Download SpamPoison (zip, 759kb)
Some Tips and Tricks for your EPOC Device
- Shortcut Shift+Ctrl+Fn+S:
Creates a screenshot in mbm format. - Shortcut Fn+'app':
Creates a new file (e.g. type Fn+'Word' for a new Word file) - Shortcut Ctrl+Shift+E:
'Kills' the marked application if you are in the "open files / programs" dialog. - Shortcut: Ctrl+Tab:
Drive 'z' (ROM) is now browseable. - Extras bar:
If you rearrange the Extras bar, make sure you save the settings in the Shell.ini. Simply go to the Control Panel, hit "Extras bar" or "Enter" and close the dialog with "OK". Otherwise you will loose the settings when you do a soft reset. - User dictionary:
You can find the User.dic in c:\system\data\. It is a plain txt-file, which you can import in Word, edit and then export again.
SmileWare for EPOC ER5 Devices
SmileWare is freeware for EPOC32 devices. Actually, all my SmileWare is tested on a Psion S5 and on the ER5-SDK, which means that SmileWare should be compatible with all EPOC Machines. SmileWare is absolutely free, but I would like you to send me a :-) or any comments and bug-reports!
Smileware is written in OPL, which recently was opensourced! Please visit opl-dev.sourceforge.net for further information. (More)
