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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-27050

JIRA creates sessions for crawlers/bots

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      This issue deals with how JIRA manages HTTP sessions for web Crawlers. The related issue JRA-27047 deals with session management for stateless requests to the REST/SOAP API.

      JIRA creates a new session for every request that comes in from the Google bot, and any other crawler that doesn't accept cookies.

      This is a problem for public-facing sites, since it strains the server unnecessarily (these sessions hang around for 5 hours). The Apache guys have solved this on http://issues.apache.org by using a Tomcat valve, see Crawler Session Manager Valve for their write-up.

      To fix this we should refrain from creating new sessions for crawlers.

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          is duplicated by

          Suggestion - JRASERVER-27406 Get the Bot-Killer bundled in OnDemand for use in JIRA

          • Closed
          is related to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-27047 JIRA creates sessions for "stateless" requests

          • Medium - Medium priority issues
          • Closed
          relates to

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-31322 REST session not terminated

          • Medium - Medium priority issues
          • Closed

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