Using CFID as a unique session cookie

[Brian Guild]

ColdFusion Professionals:

I wish to depend on the CFID variable for identification of a unique user
session. What this means to me is that every user will get a different CFID.
This must include those users who access through America Online and other proxy
server type environments.

Ideally, I would want the CFID value to represent a different value for each
visitor to my web site. I would then tell my Webtrends system to use Cookies to
identify a visitor session for more accurate visitor session numbers.

If anyone has any insight, could you please share it?

Thank you,

Brian

[Michael Knight]

In recommendations, do not use the CFID as the unique session identifier.
Instead, use a UUID. The reason behind this is that the server in the
background may restart the services. There may be any number of reasons
this would occur. When this happens, the CFID is started and set
differently than it was prior to the restart. Using the CFID for session
control and a restart occurring, will cause the user to either need to login
again or loose any tracking.

Michael Knight
www.cjmgroup.com
(former CF Tech, Macr.)

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[Jim Davis]

To use UUID as your CFToken check out this article on CFComent.com:

http://www.cfcomet.com/cfcomet/Other/index.cfm?ArticleID=C331E31B-6C87-4ED1-
91188C58FC1CE05D

Jim Davis

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