Re: unique cookie id?

I tend to use this:

use Digest::MD5
my $cookie_id = Digest::MD5::md5hex($$.time.$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'});
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With the hash always being 32 chars long. Works for me.

Though maybe $$ under mod_perl is irrelevant here. Hmmm

cLive ;-)

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Re^2: unique cookie id? by adrianh (Chancellor) on Dec 23, 2003 at 22:15 UTC
`Digest::MD5::md5hex($$.time.$ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'});` [download] This won't be unique if you get two requests to the same Apache process from the same IP in under a second. Something that's fairly likely to happen in many environments I'm afraid :-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: unique cookie id? by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Dec 24, 2003 at 14:55 UTC
Unlikely in our instance though :) cLive ;-)	[reply]