So here we are again. After examining several posts about session generation, including Dancer's, Catalyst's and PHP's, I decided to roll my own. As I understood, there are generally 3 requirements: ... But I may well be missing something. Am I?

Well, you're rolling your own, thats rule 1, don't roll your own, unless you know what you're doing ...

That you're not comparing to the existing session id generators, no benchmarks or randomness testing , no algorithm reference ...

it hints that you don't know what you're doing

but then I don't really know much to say one way or another ... except i've seen some hints ... Re^4: Debugging cgi-bin script

In reply to Re: Session id generation with Perl once more by Anonymous Monk
in thread Session id generation with Perl once more by Dallaylaen

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