i was hoping i could use the session id instead of doing the research, coding and testing required to create unique ids for this part of the project. [i.e., i'm trying to do to much in too little time :)]
can anyone point me to a few good resources or techniques for generating unique client ids? thanks, ~scott Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > >On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Scott Ahten wrote: > >>Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:41:31 -0400 >>From: Scott Ahten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: how unique is the session key? >> >>i'm planning on implementing a 'remember my login' feature in a project >>i'm working on. is the sesssion key unique enough to be used as a >>persistant cookie to uniquly identify clients across multiple sessions? >> > >No. You are absolutely guaranteed that session ids will be reused, >because they are based on a random number generator and there are only so >many possible numbers. > >>if so, does this just apply to tomcat or is this part of the spec and >>container independent? >> > >Why do you need anything other than assigning your own ids, and making >sure that you never assign the same id more than once? > >>thanks, >> >>~scott >> >> >> > >Craig > > > > >
