Google see 302 but it is 200 OK - OsCommerce
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Hi!
I´ve a problem with a webshop that run OsCOmmerce. Google report thousands of urls "Not followed" in Webmaster Tools, and it´s increasing for every day.
When you fetch as Google you get a 302 to ../cookie_usage.php. But if you fetch the page in your browser you get 200 OK.
Why does Google get 302 but users 200? We´ve checked for malware and restored old backups, nothing helps.
Thoughts about this?
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Hi!
Got a solution for this issue,
It's gzip compression that makes the 302 redirection! Enabling compression causes the redirects Google boot to cookies_usage.php and therefore Google believe they visit cookies_usage.php while they came thru another URL. Disabling it fixes the problem.
Need to investigate the gzip-plugin for OsCommerce and see what I find.
Thanks for your help!
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Well, my best guess without having the site is based on the name of the file /cookie_usage.php . I assume you check for cookie support, and since googlebot doesn't have that they get redirected to the page saying you need cookies
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