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Posted by Jared Williams on 03/30/05 21:45
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> JW> I'll take absolutely bullet-proof and handled/supressed warnings,
> JW> over relatively bullet-proof.
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> That would be fine if your previous solution was absolutely
> bullet-proof, or for that matter provided a solution for the
> original problem of renaming uploaded files and keeping them
> unique. Appending a datetime to a file, or using a loop that
> hopes you get a unique name within 100 iterations is wildly
> far from "bullet proof" in just about every respect.
Oh and generating random filenames from md5(), crossing your fingers and hoping you've got a unique filename is better?
Or assume that files don't already exist in the directory?
You are going against convential wisdom about ensuring unique filenames.
Jared
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