I really don't want this thread to come up again, but it should be noted
that SOME installations of winNT create truly random-looking strings. My Win
NT 4 SP6 workstation machine makes UUIDs like Emilio mentioned.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Voldengen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:13 PM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Unique Random Numbers
>
>
> 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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