On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Michael <aixto...@felt.demon.nl> wrote:
> On 06/02/2018 11:13, Yann Ylavic wrote:
>>
>> And the U in UID meant Unique, not User :/
>
> Then I think UUID - except you want it remembered over restarts - rather
> than for a session.
The first U there is Universal (Univeral Unique ID), and I didn't want
to impose a format either...
Simple ID would have done it probably (implies unique anyway).
>
> However, if it is not for 'external use' - how does it help me? What does it
> solve (ignorance is bliss!)? I got rather lost during the internal focused
> discussion.
It's both for "external" (e.g. %{SERVER_ID} anywhere you want) and
internal use where appropriate since this ID is garanteed to be unique
for the lifetime of the vhost (per admin choice), it could be used to
associate resources with the same (per admin choice) lifetime.
We can do things to compute this ID automatically when none is given,
but I think we can't do so *and* please everyone (doing configuration
changes), hence this long discussion...
