Function newRequestID

internal/httpapi/middleware.go:27–33

newRequestID returns a short, URL-safe, prefixed request id. crypto/rand is used so ids aren't guessable; on the astronomically unlikely read failure we fall back to a fixed sentinel rather than panicking a request.

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// is used so ids aren't guessable; on the astronomically unlikely read
// failure we fall back to a fixed sentinel rather than panicking a request.
func newRequestID() string {
	b := make([]byte, 12)
	if _, err := rand.Read(b); err != nil {
		return "req_unknown"
	}
	return "req_" + hex.EncodeToString(b)
}

// RequestIDFromContext returns the request id stamped by the requestID
// middleware, or "" if none is present.