Those are wierd results, Alan. I just ran this code on
my PC, running WIn2000:
<cfoutput>
<cfloop from="1" to="10" index="i">
#CreateUUID()#<BR>
</CFLOOP>
</CFOUTPUT>
And I got:
92135D25-A5B1-4B21-9416C81D1BBEE261
AD3FFCCC-5B9D-460E-8D8C38642633AF92
3A96B636-1E3D-4860-AE983269A53ADD98
BC99EDC9-D8A1-4C63-961E2DCE780CFA21
EACE7D25-3D98-48C8-92B63D7890F4848A
EC069231-718A-4664-99267707C7D2BF2D
9FFEC4BC-D385-4690-B7EDAD09C508238A
F17F9CB6-FF60-4E14-9D8FE3D3DDE9B113
0A9DB40A-6014-490A-867B521C2E709D5F
6FDBD9DE-89D4-4774-8AA005F80F47C127
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hal Helms [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 5:55 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
>
>
> Alan, are these true UUIDs?
>
> Hal Helms
> == See www.ColdFusionTraining.com for info on "Best Practices with
> ColdFusion & Fusebox" training, Jan 22-25 ==
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 6:14 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
>
>
> Here is a CFLOOP of 5 UUIDs built using CreateUUID():
> 6505F7E0-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> 6505F7E1-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> 6505F7E2-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> 6505F7E3-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> 6505F7E4-D2E1-11D4-B17000E0295FC366
> Care to guess what the sixth run of CFLOOP produced?
>
> Now, here is a CFLOOP of 5 UUIDs using CF_UUID:
> 09776555-09DA-E1DA-E1DA-D81ECBA988E8F77F
> BF662FEC-A7C6-AE08-9E08-9E087421FE4C2BA2
> 6CA0A744-44F4-44F4-3B37-3B370B8854A18EF6
> 09DE61D9-0923-E123-E123-D876C51CB8D6C329
> CF0D2A51-A70D-AE61-9E61-9E64A1B72F4B176E
> Care to take a crack at the sixth iteration of the CFLOOP? Hah!
>
> Now, consider the following: If you stuff a UUID into a URL
> as a security
> token for selecting user sessions, shopping carts, or
> whatever, wouldn't you
> like to know that somebody is going to have to do a LOT of
> work before they
> get lucky with a URL hack?
>
>
> Alan McCollough
> Web Programmer
> Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
> Alaska Native Medical Center
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Erik Voldengen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:11 AM
> > To: Fusebox
> > Subject: RE: inserting your own UUID into a db table
> >
> > Why does it matter if only three or so characters of a UUID
> > are unique? As long as they are indeed unique, who cares?
> >
> >
>
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at
http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
