function testSessionCookie () {
  document.cookie ="testSessionCookie=Enabled";
  if (getCookieValue ("testSessionCookie")=="Enabled")
    return true 
  else
    return false;
}
function writeSessionCookie (cookieName, cookieValue) {
  if (testSessionCookie()) {
    document.cookie = escape(cookieName) + "=" + escape(cookieValue) + "; path=/";
    return true;
  }
  else return false;
}
function getCookieValue (cookieName) {
  var exp = new RegExp (escape(cookieName) + "=([^;]+)");
  if (exp.test (document.cookie + ";")) {
    exp.exec (document.cookie + ";");
    return unescape(RegExp.$1);
  }
  else return false;
}
function randomString(length) {
    var chars = '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXTZabcdefghiklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split('');
    if (! length) {
        length = Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length);
    }
    var str = '';
    for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
        str += chars[Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length)];
    }
    return str;
}

function get_epoqsessionId() {
  var epoqSession = getCookieValue('epoqSession');
  if(! epoqSession) {
    epoqSession = randomString(32);
    writeSessionCookie('epoqSession', epoqSession);
  }
  return epoqSession;
}