Looking at the previous discussions on this, I've seen the code below. I was wondering if you were in a mod_perl enviroment, couldn't the same process call the function to generate the session twice in a second? I know with the random component that it's unlikely to have a collision but to be safe I've been using Timer::HiRes, is this overkill?

# How I've seen it suggested
use MD5;

sub generate_id {
    return substr(MD5->hexhash(time(). {}. rand(). $$. 'blah'), 0, 16)
+;
}

# Is this better or overkill?
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday usleep);
use Digest::MD5 qw(md5_hex);

sub generate_sessionID {


    my ($s, $usec) = gettimeofday;    # Get time of day in seconds and
+ useconds

    usleep(1);    # Sleep for one usec so a persistant process can't c
+all it twice in a usec (for mod_perl)

    # Sessionkey is MD5 hash of seconds_since_epoch+usecs+process_id+r
+andom
    return substr(md5_hex($s.$usec.$$.rand()), 0, 32);
    

}
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