codeforamerica / balance

A text message system for checking one's EBT card balance (SNAP benefits and more)
MIT License
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Add a 'fingerprint' to all URLs in a balance check flow to be able to… #313

Closed daguar closed 9 years ago

daguar commented 9 years ago

… uniquely identify each piece

This lets us really easily calculate the actual time lag between initial "thanks" message and final balance response.

cc @migurski since you're subscribed to alerts: the TLDR here is that we're currently picking up Twilio API problems 30-60 minutes ahead of Twilio; this will let us calculate actual data to send to Twilio about the lags.