Re: Re: Maintaining state with CGI.pm

Thanks.

I toyed with the database idea last week but was missing the crucial piece of the puzzle you mentioned: having a unique session ID.

I think I'm going to need to purchase another O'Reilly book on this topic and get much more familiar with this topic.

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar";
$nysus = $PM . $MCF;

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Re: Re: Re: Maintaining state with CGI.pm by shotgunefx (Parson) on Jun 01, 2001 at 00:38 UTC
As merlyn has pointed out in the past, you can use the following code to generate a unique session_id. If you are going to use it for generating a file to save the CGI object in, be sure to use Taint checks. `use MD5; sub generate_id { return substr(MD5->hexhash(time(). {}. rand(). $$. 'blah'), 0, 16) +; }` [download] You may find this recent discussion relevant. -Lee "To be civilized is to deny one's nature."	[reply] [d/l]

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use MD5;

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