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Jason M, 7/22/2008 12:40:46 PM

We've been using Google Mini (GM) to index our sites for a few years (asp, asp.NET), but can't seem to index restricted content (Deny Anonymous) in Sitefinity. All public content indexes without any issues.

I've set up our login page to automatically authenticate our GM (using IP and other criteria) and this works fine with non-Sitefinity .NET content. With Sitefinity content I notice 5 redirects in the "Crawl Diagnostics" section before GM drops these pages. Anyone else had success with this?

All of the Google forums recommend an upgrade to the Google Search Appliance, but I'd prefer using our existing GM and saving $$.

I'm contemplating adding the auto login logic to the restricted .master pages of this content, but wanted to see if anyone else had success.

J

, 7/24/2008 11:19:46 AM

Hi Jason M,

Sitefinity is using either Windows or Forms authentication, so without appropriate authentication you won't be able to gain access to the restricted Sitefinity pages. And as far as I know Google Mini doesn't support Forms Authentication.

A possible workaround would be to create a custom HttpModule which runs prior the Sitefinity's HttpModule and perform a check wherever the request is from Google Mini, and Authenticate it.

Beware that such implementation could lead to security risk, so proceed with caution.

Greetings,
Nikola
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