SE Bots and forms

[ogito]

Can search engine bots by crawling a site submit forms? For example, if a site has a Sort options (as a form and not as link), could the search engines index the pages with the different sorts?

[Masetek]

Bots can't submit forms

[Todd W]

Do you want them to get to those pages or not?
If you want them too you coul djust make links to those pages.

[ogito]

thanks, just wanted to be sure, that is true.
actually I need them as form, otherwise the bots could treat them as duplicate content