dropping the session ID

[René Kiesler]

I store every page-impression of my website to a database. Amongst other things, I store the called URL. Sometimes, that URL includes a session ID as well. Examples:

www.kiesler.at/article74.html?4c944bdb7f9edf10eedc5a883aeb396a=2f4d5ecba09158616a4cbc224d4f338d
http://www.kiesler.at/index.php?module=article&view=53&4c944bdb7f9edf10eedc5a883aeb396a=455c6f096cae2c84061698a5a6f32009

...I'd like to drop the ?4c944bdb7f9edf10eedc5a883aeb396a=2f4d5ecba09158616a4cbc224d4f338d in the first and the &4c944bdb7f9edf10eedc5a883aeb396a=455c6f096cae2c84061698a5a6f32009 part in the second case.

Sometimes, the session ID is even inside the URL, not at the end of it. An example I just made up:

http://www.kiesler.at/index.php?module=article&4c944bdb7f9edf10eedc5a883aeb396a=455c6f096cae2c84061698a5a6f32009&view=53

I'd like for example to make an overview of the most visited URLs. Obviously, I'd like to drop the session ID there.


regards,

René C. Kiesler!