How to remove zenid in query string?

**suman07** · 19 Dec 2007, 11:08 AM

Hello
When website is first run a query string appears like zenid=sessionid. What should I do to remove this query string? Waiting for the reply
Thanx

**suman07** · 19 Dec 2007, 01:06 PM

I mean I want to remove the query string from the URL.

**yellow1912** · 19 Dec 2007, 01:21 PM

Short answer: you can't

**cooperwd** · 3 Jan 2008, 06:37 PM

Can anyone point to the long answer?

**Merlinpa1969** · 3 Jan 2008, 08:15 PM

Long answer,

this only displays Once when you forst load site,
then agqain when you go to https,

so back to the short answer you cant,

why would you want to,
since this is whats passed to store the session and the cart contents etc.....

**Tech-E** · 5 Feb 2008, 11:32 PM

One good reason is because you never want a session ID to show up in a URL that is spidered by search engines.

Does Zen Cart contain code to detect spiders and turn off the session ID when a spider comes calling?

Spiders cannot accept cookies and this creates a conflict for session IDs. You can end up with hundreds of versions of the URL for the same page in search engine indexes.