Spiders.txt bug fix 1.0

When the code in includes/application_top.php was written, it was assumed that spiders and bots do not accept cookies. Today, this is no longer true and more and more spiders and bots are accepting cookies in the search for more web content.When a bot accepts cookies it gets a session and next thing you know it is adding products to your shopping cart. In the worst case the spider or bots can get lost in your shopping cart going round and round in circles. To see this happening I recommend you install the Who's Online Enhancement (homepage The fix to this is simple :-in includes/application_top.php find the following code :-$session_started = false;if (SESSION_FORCE_COOKIE_USE == 'True') {tep_setcookie('cookie_test', 'please_accept_for_session', time() 60*60*24*30, $cookie_path, $cookie_domain);if (isset($HTTP_COOKIE_VARS['cookie_test'])) {tep_session_start();$session_started = true;}} elseif (SESSION_BLOCK_SPIDERS == 'True') {$user_agent = strtolower(getenv('HTTP_USER_AGENT'));$spider_flag = false;if (tep_not_null($user_agent)) {$spiders = file(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'spiders.txt');for ($i=0, $n=sizeof($spiders); $i

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