SSL in Session

[sethgecko]

fellow mozzers,

i have a question concerning ssl.

we were working on a new webshop - the login and all the steps of the shopping cart are secured with ssl, all the other (and important) sites of the webpage are regular http.
but if you have visited one site with ssl, the whole session you will be forwarded to the ssl versions, so all pages turn to ssl pages. for me this looks like a possible spider trap for an search engine as they wont find any non-https sites anymore, and these are the ones i want in the index.

what do you think? my personal opinion is to make the ssl sites autonomous from the session, but i need some more opinions, as my developer are telling me that this would be alot more work for them.

thanks in advance
seth

[UnderRugSwept]

A quick fix if you have a rather basic site, would be, on the SSL pages, make all the links to other pages absolute rather than relative.

Instead of page.html
do http://www.site.com/page.html

[sethgecko]

Hi Marisa,

Thanks for your reply.

My site is huge unfortunately  this solutions doesnt work for me.

any other ideas :-)?

thanks

[sethgecko]

Hi Marisa,

Thanks for your reply.

My site is huge unfortunately  this solutions doesnt work for me.

any other ideas :-)?

thanks

[UnderRugSwept]

Are you using a CMS for your site? Some of them have a setting that will automatically make all the links absolute.

[sethgecko]

our site is selfmade with our own cms.

we could handle it with absolute links, but that isnt the solution i am looking for.

the question is "is the solution we are currently using, a spider trap?", if the answer is yes, we need to make it happen that only a few sites are ssl secured and it doesnt depend on session.

thank you marisa.