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by josegonzalez 4497 days ago
This is similar to the Sysadvent 2013 post by TR Jordan on using an `X-Trace` header to track users across your stack:

http://sysadvent.blogspot.com/2013/12/day-5-gentle-introduct...

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Nice! Thanks for turning me on to that -- I've been looking for something like that.

I actually think they're pretty different problems. WebServerUid is about uniquely identifying a single browser over hours, days, months, or years, while X-Trace is about tracking a single request over its (hopefully) single-second-at-most lifecycle -- but they're both really useful, and I'm glad you posted that link.