W-Hat

W-Hat.com provides a couple of useful services for LSL developers: name2key provides a way to get an avatar's key from their name. httpdb provides free key/value storage for scripts with no signup. objdns provided email aliases for objects. httpmail let objects send email to other objects via HTTP. The group became inactive and faded into obscurity... as its members grew up. In 2011 the owner of the group and land was quietly banned from Second Life. Some of us still hang out in #sl on irc.synirc.net, but almost nobody still plays Second Life. Yes, please do. Everything on this site is free and open source and all the services are free to use and abuse in any manner you see fit. It took 15 years, and almost another before we noticed, but LSL finally has llName2Key and llRequestUserKey . They were added about the same time our site was blocked grid-wide last year. Coincidence? Back in 2005 when our database started, name2key was a hotly debated issue. People were losing their minds even over "responsible" databases with opt-out features. And 'lo the brave hero W-Hat proclaimed "wait, we are the bad guys, and we already have your key, and the world's not ending??", and it was good. And also terrible, and slow, and outdated, and smaller than what's-her-face's, and always missing that one key you really needed, and anyway I heard those w-hatters all got banned so their site is probably going away any day now. Our traffic from in-world is still growing and we have no plans to shut down, but we are looking for a volunteer to run some new in-world resolvers since I'm still banned forever . Please tweet @www_hat or email masa@w-hat.com. Enter as many names as you want, separated by anything other than spaces or periods. Paste keys in this box to add them to the database. Formatting and extraneous text don't matter; anything that doesn't look like a UUID will be ignored. Looks up a name. may be in user.name or resident name format. If the name is found, returns status 200 and the UUID. If it is not found, returns status ...Read More