[nginx] Variable $request_id.

[Albert Casademont]

Hi all,

We've been using this extension for quite a long time now, it's based on
UUIDs and it works flawlessly, no need to reinvent the wheel here!

https://github.com/newobj/nginx-x-rid-header/

Best,

Albert

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 03:23:51PM +1000, SplitIce wrote:
>
> > For ours we used a random number to start and the Process ID & Process
> > start time to try and increase uniqueness between reloads (ours is a
> 128bit
> > ID). Then applying an increment, with future requests having a higher id.
> >
> > Perhaps that would be better than just 128bit of random data?
>
> Using process id & start time is believed to be particularly bad
> approach in virtualized environments where multiple identical
> virtual machines and/or containers can start at the same time.
>
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