aoepeople/aoe_blackholesession

Will skip creating a real session for bots

AOE_BlackHoleSession

Author: Fabrizio Branca, _(*1)

See: https://github.com/colinmollenhour/Cm_RedisSession/issues/91, _(*2)

Bots (including load balancers and reverse proxies) will create many sessions that will never be used again. Instead we're detecting them based on the user agent and will skip creating a real session., _(*3)

Configuration

Add this to your local.xml file:, _(*4)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<config>
    <global>
        [...]
        <aoeblackholesession>
            <bot_regex><![CDATA[/^elb-healthchecker/i]]></bot_regex>
        </aoeblackholesession>
        [...]
    </global>
</config>