I know we had to contact CA and Sterling, as well as Landmark Systems about using our offset. The only one that gave us a hard time about it was CA, who told us they "had it first", and then tried both money and threats to have us give it up and go back and ask for another one. I believe our legal-eze, highly professional response was something like "pound salt".
I could be missing some vendors, but I think the rest of the times we had to debug the problem were "normal" sites that they themselves decided the offset was "safe" to use. They would just choose another "safe to use" one and sometimes we helped them re-write and we would never have that particular issue again, but it became a big enough issue over time that we decided that name/tokens were probably a better way to go for most of the new features we add and we stopped adding things to our table. We still use it though, but I think the direction we are moving is to eventually eliminate it's use. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
