--- loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2000/12/06 19:58:31	1.76
+++ loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm	2000/12/12 21:32:46	1.78
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 # 10/06,10/09,10/10,10/11,10/14,10/20,10/23,10/25,10/26,10/27,10/28,10/29, 
 # 10/30,10/31,
 # 11/2,11/14,11/15,11/16,11/20,11/21,11/22,11/25,11/27,
-# 12/02 Gerd Kortemeyer
+# 12/02,12/12 Gerd Kortemeyer
 
 package Apache::lonnet;
 
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ use Apache::File;
 use LWP::UserAgent();
 use HTTP::Headers;
 use vars 
-qw(%perlvar %hostname %homecache %spareid %hostdom %libserv %pr %prp %fe %fd $readit %metacache $unique);
+qw(%perlvar %hostname %homecache %spareid %hostdom %libserv %pr %prp %fe %fd $readit %metacache);
 use IO::Socket;
 use GDBM_File;
 use Apache::Constants qw(:common :http);
@@ -1461,8 +1461,12 @@ sub EXT {
      
 # --------------------------------------------- last, look in resource metadata
 
+      $spacequalifierrest=~s/\./\_/;
       my $metadata=&metadata($ENV{'request.filename'},$spacequalifierrest);
       if ($metadata) { return $metadata; }
+      $metadata=&metadata($ENV{'request.filename'},
+                                         'parameter_'.$spacequalifierrest);
+      if ($metadata) { return $metadata; }
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------- Any other user namespace
     } elsif ($realm eq 'environment') {
@@ -1481,6 +1485,7 @@ sub EXT {
 
 sub metadata {
     my ($uri,$what)=@_;
+
     $uri=&declutter($uri);
     my $filename=$uri;
     $uri=~s/\.meta$//;
@@ -1507,7 +1512,11 @@ sub metadata {
               map {
 		  $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey.'.'.$_}=$token->[2]->{$_};
               } @{$token->[3]};
-              $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey}=$parser->get_text('/'.$entry);
+              unless (
+                 $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey}=$parser->get_text('/'.$entry)
+		      ) { $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey}=
+			      $metacache{$uri.':'.$unikey.'.default'};
+		      }
           }
        }
     }
@@ -1639,7 +1648,7 @@ sub ireceipt {
     my $cudom=unpack("%32C*",$fudom);
     my $cucourseid=unpack("%32C*",$fucourseid);
     my $cusymb=unpack("%32C*",$fusymb);
-    my $cunique=unpack("%32C*",$unique);
+    my $cunique=unpack("%32C*",$perlvar{'lonReceipt'});
     return unpack("%32C*",$perlvar{'lonHostID'}).'-'.
            ($cunique%$cuname+
             $cunique%$cudom+
@@ -1800,24 +1809,6 @@ if ($readit ne 'done') {
     }
 }
 
-# --------------------------------------------------- Get CPU data as unique ID
-{
-   my @contents;
-   {
-    my $fh=Apache::File->new('/proc/cpuinfo');
-    @contents=<$fh>;
-   }
-   $unique='';
-   map {
-       my ($name,$value)=split(/\s*\:\s*/,$_);
-       if (($name eq 'vendor_id') || ($name=~/^model/) ||
-           ($name=~/^cpu/) || ($name eq 'stepping')) {
-	   $unique.=$value;
-       } 
-   } @contents;
-   $unique=~s/\W//g;
-}
-
 %metacache=();
 
 $readit='done';