Google网站搜索受保护的页面

Question

My website includes subscription based pages, meaning that the content in those pages are password protected. I would like to implement a site search, and have these protected pages appear in the search results, but require login in order to view them.

What I thought about, is creating, for each protected page, an unprotected version, and then in each of these uprotected pages do a redirect on page load to the protected version.

Are there better ways of doing this ?

Answer 1

There are some ways that you can do that more easy. Let say that you won to make it fully automatically on all page, then you go to the global.asax , on the AuthenticationRequest and if you see that is a google crawler, or a crawler in general you automatically loggin him with a simple login name.

Must have in mine that any one can set a false browser id and see your "protected page". And the code can be:

protected void Application_AuthenticateRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   // if its crawler - or check for what else you wish for
   if(HttpContext.Current.Request.Browser.Crawler){      
       // then log him automatically using the 'OneName' user
       FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie("OneName", false);       
   }
}

relative: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.security.formsauthentication.setauthcookie.aspx