On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 07:49:50AM -0800, Paul Jackson wrote:
Chris wrote: |> * ID is hex signature of IP address ...
I hope you're not presuming that there is at most one user session, at any given time, per IP addr. What if there are multiple users working from a given client system -- think Unix or Linux here.
Ah, I guess I glossed over the idea ... these IDs are generated once, and I *AM* assuming that at any instantaneous point in time (i.e. subsecond accuracy) there are not two of them from the same IP address being generated :-) Actually, Linux/UNIX is hardly an issue any more for web servers, firewalls however, ARE :-) So if you had two people coming from Firewall A (192.168.1.1), so long as they got their IDs at lest a 10th of a second apart (or whatever accuracy time.time() returns) they'd always be unique. Make more sense now? :-) BTW, I've got to get an SHA1 implementation in the libraries, i Just don't like MD5. Chris -- | Christopher Petrilli ``Television is bubble-gum for | petrilli@amber.org the mind.''-Frank Lloyd Wright