[Vtigercrm-developers] application_unique_key

[Rubén A. Estrada Orozco]

I imagined it had the purpose of tracking app usage. From your grep one can
see that's somehow being used for the extension store. Let's see if someone
from the vtiger team can give us a more detailed explanation about the
origin and usage of that variable.


On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:51 PM S T Prasad <stprasad at stprasad.com> wrote:

> 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
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>
>
> 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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