No, because with winNT it seems to create truly random-looking
strings. This very thread came up last year. Alan McCollough
put together a replacement tag if your server does incremental
UUID's like what you saw, and you don't like it. I don't think
it's a big deal unless you don't want people guessing those
values in your DB.
-Erik
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Emilio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 11:02 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Unique Random Numbers
>
>
>
> >is there a problem with the createUUID() function in cf?
>
> Hi Ken,
> On win 98 that function seems to generate non-random results.
>
> Run this code on a Win98,
>
> <cfoutput>
> <cfloop index="theUUID" from="1" to="15" step="1">
> #CreateUUID()#
> </cfloop>
> </cfoutput>
>
>
> I got these:
>
> Output of 15 CreateUUID() calls on Win98
> 0BBAE928-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE929-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE92A-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE92B-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE92C-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE92D-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE92E-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE92F-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE930-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE931-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE932-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE933-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE934-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE935-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
> 0BBAE936-5A06-11D5-99030060672D598B
>
> Is this a bad thing though?
>
> Cheers,
> Emilio
>
>
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