Please Help: Unique Cookies

[Krishan]

The cookie I'm setting in the browser is the Client IP.

code:

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[FMP-SetCookie: LoginCookie={ClientIP}]

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I want the cookie to be a unique, fairly complex I.D. which is hard to guess or figure out.

But I don't want to use calculation fields....

Do you have any ideas?

Thank you!

[Garry Claridge]

Maybe concatenate the time to the IP! If you use Javascript you can contrive some complex numbers.

Garry

[Krishan]

thanks... would you be able to explain further?

[Garry Claridge]

This is what I had in mind:

[FMP-SetCookie: mycookie1={ClientIP}{CurrentDate}{CurrentTime}]

However, I had problems including the long version of CurrentTime with the intra tag, hence the seconds were omitted which meant that the value would have a low chance of being unique. Secondly value contents were a bit obvious.

The Javascript version is:

<script>myDate = new Date();document.cooke = "mycookie1=" + myDate.getTime();</script>

This sets the value as an integer representing the date and time in miliseconds. (I removed the i in cookie because this message system did not like the word cookie in a Javascript)

Both versions can have their values recalled with:

[FMP-Cookie: mycookie1]

Note, that if you use the Javascript version you will need to keep the cookie name in lowercase for the FMP tag to read it.

Hope this helps. Garry

[Krishan]

Thanks a lot Garry! You've been a big help... I'll try it out and see what happens.