A somewhat unrelated problem, but as discussed in this node, using the IP address of the remote user is NOT a good way to guarentee unique session information, particularly if your user is behind a firewall or proxy. While highly unlikely that it might happen that two users from the same proxy may hit your site at the say time (and thus generating the same md5 key), it could still happen. I would at least add another level of randomness to the key before md5'ing it (eg add ".(int rand 10000)") to $remote.

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In reply to Re: Untainting cookies by Masem
in thread Untainting cookies by mothra

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