On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 02:17:04PM +0100, Tim Düsterhus wrote:
> > Does this mean that the unique-id will now be generated only when
> > logging ? Because if that's the case it won't find any element from
> > the request anymore.
> 
> If neither the unique-id-header is set, nor the unique-id sample fetch
> is used then this is correct. I'm not sure how useful an ID that is
> never referenced elsewhere is,

It's not never referenced. It may be used for various things, just for
getting a unique log identifier, passed as part of another header, or
the query string, used in a redirect to match the second request against
the first one, used in Lua, passed to an SPOA etc.

> but this indeed would be a breaking change. I'll have a look.

OK thanks!

Willy

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