For those who have not notice what the s= session stands for. It is when you have cookies disabled and so that ipb can recognise who the use is.
The reason why it is on the links even though you have cookies enabled is because sometimes the cookies did not get assigned properly and on time. Depending on browsers it might have had a glitch where it did not assign you the required session. So IPB puts it in the URL in the hope that it will try to put the session cookie again.
Now us FURL developers for ipb we take it out, and it causes some problems to some users. So we have to find a way to compensate this.
Have you got any ideas on how to tackle this?
Couldn’t you add the sid to the url at the end of the string? Like when needed (not for bots) add the &s= to the end of the URL. It may look a little ugly, but you could have an option to turn it on or off?
i have an idea of trying of forcing or disabling furl for people without cookies who requires them.
I’m not sure if that would be good, I personally would rather have FURL url with ?s=sid at the end of it then having index.php?topic=2424&s=sid.
It still looks a lot better