[Vtigercrm-developers] application_unique_key

[S T Prasad]

Hi Ruben,
This point also intrigued me and I executed a grep (excluding
config.inc.php) and this result, shows that while it may not be
significant, it is still needs to exist.
Soren Madsen's observation was also mine, the there is nothing unique about
it.

That said, it can be used by third party developers, to qualify the
uniqueness of the instance, using it in combination with other server
parameters, like
SERVER_NAME, SERVER_ADDR, HTTP_REFERER to absolutely qualify the instance
as two instances with the same , will not have the combination of the
above.
A possible use case may be to license the 3rd party extensions in a hash of
the above 4 values, which fully qualify the unique instance.

Otherwise, it seems to be a code vestige.

Pin drop silence from the Vtiger team on this topic, suggests a real deep
state type of secret usage!

[image: image.png]

With best regards,

S.T.Prasad (Skype: stprasad at stprasad.com)
Founder and Chief Shikari
http://www.vtigress.com
The Purr-fect mate for vTiger
Certified Solution Partner for Asia and Africa


On Wed, May 26, 2021 at 1:23 AM Søren Madsen <sm at globalcrm.dk> wrote:

> Absolutely nothing - I have several instances running with the same key
>
>
> Den fre. 7. maj 2021 kl. 21.33 skrev Rubén A. Estrada Orozco <
> rulotec1 at gmail.com>:
>
>> What is the use of the $application_unique_key variable in config.inc.php?
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>> What could happen if two instances have the same key? For example if you
>> create a new vtiger from a copy of an existing instance
>>
>>
>> Saludos
>>
>> Rubén
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>
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