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Brent_Sachnoff_
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Dec 06, 2007

Assigning cookies only once

I'm trying to assign a client a cookie that will be psuedo random using:   when HTTP_RESPONSE {   expr srand([clock clicks])   set tracker [expr (rand() * 999) + 10]   HTTP::cooki...
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Joe_Hsy_45207
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Jun 01, 2009
Just realized that the cookie insert code will not be executed for each http hit (only the first hit for that browser session), so performance shouldn't be too much of an issue. Never mind!

 

 

BTW, do you know the overhead with using [AES::key] to generate an unique id versus the rand method you outlined?

 

 

Thanks! //Joe