Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition By Robert Eckstein, Stephen Spainhour
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Chapter 19. Apache Modules
The mod_unique_id module generates an environment variable, UNIQUE_ID, which is guaranteed to be a unique number for each request given to the server. The variable consists of an encoding of the 32-bit IP address of the server, the httpd process ID, the current UTC timestamp, and an independent counter.