RE: Generating session keys in RPG using HASH values

You could retrieve the job name/number and the current time. If you need a
session id to push to web pages (or is visible in URLs, etc), you could then
apply the MD5 hash to it. Here is a link to an MD5 subprocedure you can call
from your programs: http://bb.blackrobes.net/viewtopic.php?t=9
I use this all the time to generate session keys and unique filenames for
web applications and temporary files.

HTH,
Loyd

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Skvarenina [mailto:mskvarenina@usa.net] 
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:00 AM
To: WEB400@midrange.com
Subject: [WEB400] Generating session keys in RPG using HASH values


I need to generate a pseudo-random character string to be used as a session
key in my browser applications.  Has anyone used a hashing method in RPG to
generate a pseudo-random number and if so, could you please post it.
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