Hi,

Would a pseduo random number be good enough? 
my ($confid);
my @passset = ('a'..'z', 'A'..'Z', '1'..'9');
for (my $i = 0; $i < 16; $i++) {
     my $randum_num = int(rand($#passset + 1));
     $confid .= $passset[$randum_num];
                             }

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I also do not understand the point in maintaining a session state? Can't someone keep generating new sessions and use it over and over again?

Am I worried too much? Who cares if theres 10,000 unnecessary records, it'll be deleted in 3 hrs (I do run a chron script deleting rows with expired time). ?

thank you

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in thread A good way to prevent "spam flooding"? by Anonymous Monk

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