I don’t think the
userref is stored as hex Number, but of of course, when I look at my
sample, there is no letter over F,
I think it is an
Alphanumeric code and is not in HEX code?
If I am wrong
sobeit ;-)
I will look in my
archives, I know this hex to dec issue has been asked and
answered
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From:
Atrix
Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July
16, 2003 4:19 PM
To:
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Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: User
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Hmm, so i guess maybe some
parts are more likely to be unique than other
parts.
Thanks for the info
Ben...
oh wait, do you know if theres
a way in witango to convert from hex to decimal and back? I only
wanted to store the first 5 digits to save on space but storing it as a
number instead of text would save alot of space too i
bet.
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Sent:
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 4:04 PM
Subject: RE:
Witango-Talk: User Reference
Userreference
is assigned server side.
I don’t know
what all goes into creating it, but I know time is a factor, and it is
possible that the first few chars are base on Hour and Min. and it
possible to have that time combo come up as a start to the userref
multiple times during the day.
Using the first
portion of user ref and not the whole will not necessarily be unique.
You need to use the whole userref to guarantee
uniqueness.
Either that or
someone bookmarked a page with it in and sent it to someone else as a
link and that someone else accessed that page prior to timeout
-----Original
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From:
Atrix Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 3:57
PM
To:
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Subject: Witango-Talk: User
Reference
I posted this but it didnt
apear so im reposting, sorry if it shows up
twice!
When users log in we put
some information in the database about them, including the first 5
digits of the user reference number so we can match it up in the log
with user reference numbers easier.
We had a user log in on 6/30
with first 5 user ref digits of 5353C, then they logged in on 7/8 with
DE1C4, and again on 7/9 with 5353C again (all from same
IP).
I was wondering if it was
likely that he got the same first 5 digits (or maybe all
digits?) of a user reference number the same over a short period of
time or maybe its an indiciation of something wrong? I dont know
if user references are generated client side or server side so i thought
id ask and see if this was anything to worry
about.
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