Will site be penalised by using 302 Redirect to URL with session id?

[adamclark]

Hi,

I have a client that is using a 302 redirect to redirect the domain name to a sessionid URL
eg. www.<clientname>.com has a 302 redirect to www.<clientname>.com/site1/publisher/index.jsp?jsessionid=535431092654395843.

I have warned them against the use of the session id, but I'm under the impression that the 302 won't help them either. Can anyone confirm this?

Thanks

Adam

[seomike]

session id's will stop spiders from going any further.

302 will be crawled and cached with no problem. though if you can change the headers to give a 301 it would probably be better.